Illuminations on Market Street: (A Story about Sex and Estrangement, AIDS and Loss, and Other Preoccupations in San Francisco)

by Benjamin Heim Shepard

Book Overview

San Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. He finds himself working in a housing program for people with HIV/AIDS. The entire city is reeling. His clients are dying. Cab records their every word.

He starts drafting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3838212118
• ISBN13: 9783838212111
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Ibidem Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.2"