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Book SynopsisThe American-born anthropologist Eric Michaels was a major intellectual in Australia. This book is his provocative and intellectually powerful account of living with AIDS. This book offers an ironic rumination on the cultural phenomenon of AIDS. It also provides a view of the AIDS epidemic from a new vantage point.
Trade Review“The diary is full of Michaels’s rage and frustration; it is also full of a wild kind of humor that can, under extreme circumstances, be the heart’s only alternative to feeling—to paraphrase Swift’s epitaph—lacerated by indignation.”—From the preface by Michael Moon
Table of ContentsPreface to the Duke Edition, by Michael Moon ix
Foreword, by Paul Foss xvii
Introduction, by Simon Watney xxi
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