Paradise /
This book was written six months before Hervé Guibert's death in December 1991 from an Aids-related illness. The narrative follows the adventures of the author and his 'companion', the beautiful, passionate and mysterious Jayne. She is a statuesque blonde, former swimming champion and...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Quartet Books,
1996.
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| Summary: | This book was written six months before Hervé Guibert's death in December 1991 from an Aids-related illness. The narrative follows the adventures of the author and his 'companion', the beautiful, passionate and mysterious Jayne. She is a statuesque blonde, former swimming champion and model, who excels in the pursuit of pleasure. They wander to and from various romantic locations - Martinique, Zurich, Tahiti, Bora Bora, Mali - which all turn out to be insidiously dangerous and disease-ridden behind their picturesque travel-brochure appearances and their expensive, luxurious hotels. As the author's real life comes to the surface of the fictional fantasy, the narrative gradually takes on more sinister tones: Guibert and Jayne acquire the symptoms of a banal, persistent infection while they are in Mali ... Guibert's Aids symptoms develop and he undergoes a terrifying new kind of brain scan at a clinic in Washington DC ... and, finally, Jayne swims out to a jagged coral reef, never to return ... |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. Purchased for the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies collection by The Cushing Library. |
| Physical Description: | 120 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0704380102 9780704380103 |