
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
#1808 of 3,809 books · #613 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1988).
This tender and lyrical memoir remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era--a searing, shattering, ultimately hope-inspiring account of a great love story.
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- Houghton Mifflin
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Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyShortlistedMajor(1988)
Other awarded books from Paul Monette
- Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (2014)1 win · 12 score
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