Mark

by Jay Hoyle

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912083301
• ISBN13: 9780912083308
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Langford Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Opens Your Eyes

I want to preface this review by saying I grew up at the same time of Mark's fight and in the neighboring town the Hoyles' crusade ignorance took place. I remember hearing everything that was being said about the family and read everything being written about Mark's story. Jay Hoyle's story of his beloved son Mark was the first book that ever made me cry. Written from his perspective, Jay Hoyle does an incredible job of telling his family's difficult story in a small, unknowing town. Mark was one of the first people in southeastern Massachusetts to contract AIDS, and not much was known about the disease at the time. The family had to battle an entire town and region for acceptance, but their story took a backseat to Ryan White, who became nationally known for his battle against society at the same time. The Hoyles' story is inspirational and touching and will make anyone who reads it question their thoughts and beliefs on certain things in this world. "Mark" is a wonderfully touching account of a family's struggle with a disease many people knew little about. Jay Hoyle holds nothing back in this memoir and the family's story will inspire anyone who reads it. From the first time Mark started getting sick to finally receiving the fateful diagnosis, the Hoyle family stuck together and expressed nothing but unconditional love. Mark's battle with the disease was difficult, but he and his family kept nothing but optimism alive. The chronology of Mark's down-turn is sad and it made me wish a cure for this horrible disease was found. Even nearly 20 years after Mark's death and 15 years after reading this book, I still remember his story from what I read in this book.