{"product_id":"telling-time-resisting-the-apocalypse-in-american-aids-novels-1982-1992-9798201325244","title":"Telling Time: Resisting the Apocalypse in American AIDS Novels, 1982-1992","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lisa Frieden\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lisa Frieden\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lisa Frieden\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: LGBT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTelling Time\u003c\/em\u003e is a scholarly book that\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eexplores how novelists wrote about AIDS during the first decade of the epidemic, when HIV and AIDS were considered death sentences and most often associated with homosexuality and the gay community. The book explores the different narrative strategies used by novelists to represent the temporality of AIDS, looking at Paul Reed's \u003cem\u003eFacing It: a Novel of AIDS\u003c\/em\u003e, David Feinberg's \u003cem\u003eEighty-Sixed\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSpontaneous Combustion\u003c\/em\u003e, and Paul Monette's \u003cem\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e, and how a few novels did manage to resist the apocalyptic dominant rhetoric of AIDS. The book also discusses the difficulties of publishing AIDS novels by people of color and such writers as E. Lynn Harris and Steve Corbin. \u003cem\u003eTelling Time\u003c\/em\u003e includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography of all American AIDS novels published from 1982-1992 as a reference guide for further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46455100145815,"sku":"9798201325244","price":1044.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798201325244.webp?v=1769174012","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/telling-time-resisting-the-apocalypse-in-american-aids-novels-1982-1992-9798201325244","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}