Susan Sontag & Howard Hodgkin, THE WAY WE LIVE NOW, 1991, Noonday Press, PB

Description: Susan Sontag & Howard Hodgkin, THE WAY WE LIVE NOW, 1991, Noonday Press, PB Softcover book in very good, very clean condition. Very clean text. THE WAY WE LIVE NOW by Susan Sontag and Howard Hodgkin, published in 1991 by the Noonday Press. This book is the result of a unique collaboration. THE WAY WE LIVE NOW was first published as a short story in the NEW YORKER in 1986. It depicts the responses-doubting, possessive, comic-of a group of New Yorkers when they discover a close friend has AIDS. Now, Howard Hodgkin has created a set of etchings to accompany the text. $3.50 domestic shipping. International shipping at cost. Please email with any questions. "The Way We Live Now" is a short story by Susan Sontag which 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.Pictures by Howard Hodgkin (1991)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, "The Way We Live Now" remains a signature work in the literature of the epidemic.[1]Sontag borrowed her title from an 1875 novel by British writer Anthony Trollope called The Way We Live Now.

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