The Way We Live Now by Sontag, Susan & Howard Hodgkin

ISBN: 0224029169

Author: Sontag, Susan & Howard Hodgkin

Condition: new

The Way We Live Now was published to great acclaim on November 24, 1986 in The New Yorker. The story describes the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, as the disease began to claim members of the New York cultural elite. The story is told entirely in the form of fragments of conversation, mentioned and whispered by numerous friends of an unnamed man who lies sick in a hospital bed. Although AIDS was new to many who read the story when it first appeared, It remains a signature work in the literature of the epidemic.