Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days by Bevilaqua, Nancy

Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781480164512)

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Format: Paperback
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Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days by Bevilaqua, Nancy

Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days

$11.95
Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days by Bevilaqua, Nancy

Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days

$11.95
Format: Paperback
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When they met, David was a 41-year-old heroin addict, homeless and dying of AIDS. The author was a 27-year-old, self-absorbed, bar-hopping poet--and his caseworker. In 1989, in New York City, there was nothing "manageable" about AIDS, and David would have only eight more months to live, but they were drawn into a sweet, desperate, forbidden relationship in which the boundary between "client" and "caseworker" dissolved. Living together in secrecy in his little Lower East Side studio for those final eight months, they hoped for the impossible until it was impossible to hope any more. Sixteen years after David's death, the grief that the author had tried to suppress at the time returned with unexpected ferocity, and changed her life once again.

Author: Nancy Bevilaqua
ISBN-10: 1480164518
ISBN-13: 9781480164512
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2012
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.53d
By Nancy Bevilaqua
By Nancy Bevilaqua
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Nancy Bevilaqua was born in New York City. After studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Reed College and New York University, she worked for ten years as a caseworker and counselor for people with AIDS, the homeless, and people in drug treatment programs. She married Lorenzo Bevilaqua, a photographer, in 1994, and in 1998 their son, Alessandro, was born. A few years later Nancy became a freelance writer, specializing in travel; her articles, essays, and photography have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Coastal Living, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, several in-flight magazines, and many other publications. Nancy and Alessandro now live in Florida, where, although she loves the beach on which she lives, Nancy still dreams nearly every night about New York.

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