No-Accounts: Dare Mighty Things
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Health, Ailments & Diseases, AIDs & HIV, Fiction & Literature, LGBT, Gay
| Author: | Tom Glenn | ISBN: | 9781627200097 |
| Publisher: | Apprentice House | Publication: | March 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Apprentice House | Language: | English |
| Author: | Tom Glenn |
| ISBN: | 9781627200097 |
| Publisher: | Apprentice House |
| Publication: | March 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Apprentice House |
| Language: | English |
Washington, D.C., 1985. Peter, a gay dancer, dying of AIDS, thirsts for forgiveness for causing the death of a young man with whom he had sex. Martin, a straight college professor, grieves over the loss of his favorite student, killed by AIDS. He volunteers to act as a buddy to an AIDS patient and is assigned Peter. When they discover that Peter infected Martin’s student, both are forced to rethink their life views. No-Accounts is a story of two men, one gay, one straight, who learn from one another how to become men by accepting loss, including, in the end, life itself. “Tom Glenn lived his novel seven times as a volunteer assisting HIV infected men to die. This is fiction taken from life written by a hero who accompanied the terminally ill as far as any mortal could, devoting himself body and soul to their comfort and helping them make their exit with dignity. It is one man’s story of committing unconditionally to another. A love story like no other, it is uplifting and wrenching and rewarding beyond measure.” —Juris Jurjevics, author of The Trudeau Vector and Red Flags
Washington, D.C., 1985. Peter, a gay dancer, dying of AIDS, thirsts for forgiveness for causing the death of a young man with whom he had sex. Martin, a straight college professor, grieves over the loss of his favorite student, killed by AIDS. He volunteers to act as a buddy to an AIDS patient and is assigned Peter. When they discover that Peter infected Martin’s student, both are forced to rethink their life views. No-Accounts is a story of two men, one gay, one straight, who learn from one another how to become men by accepting loss, including, in the end, life itself. “Tom Glenn lived his novel seven times as a volunteer assisting HIV infected men to die. This is fiction taken from life written by a hero who accompanied the terminally ill as far as any mortal could, devoting himself body and soul to their comfort and helping them make their exit with dignity. It is one man’s story of committing unconditionally to another. A love story like no other, it is uplifting and wrenching and rewarding beyond measure.” —Juris Jurjevics, author of The Trudeau Vector and Red Flags
