Dancing on the Moon: 2short Stories about AIDS

by Jameson Currier

Book Overview

From the author of Where the Rainbow Ends and The Haunted Heart, this debut collection of short stories, first published in 1993, was praised for its courageous and compassionate depiction of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670846562
• ISBN13: 9780670846566
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Transcendentally Excellent

I saw that this book had not yet been reviewed. It was so good that I had to try to encourage others to pick it up. I read it at work & many of my co-workers could not understand how a book on AIDS could be good. It must be too depressing. Well, yes. It is sad. But so is Long Days Journey into Night, Anne Frank's Diary & many other works of an enduring nature. This collection clearly presents the human condition & human nature. Ironicly, the collection is spiritually uplifting. The works, of course, are predominantly of Gay men & their loved ones. But there are others; and all characters are presented first & foremost as Humans, not Gay nor Straight; not Black nor White; not Jewish nor Goy. Bottom line: It is moving and affecting. It is cathartic. And anyone who wants to know what it is to lose a loved one to anything ought to read it.