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Title: Heaven's Coast : Memoir, A by Mark Doty ISBN: 0-06-092805-0 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 12 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a typical memoir but beautifully written
Comment: Doty took us to Heavens coast to expore life and death as his partner Wally dying of AIDS. The story evolves the impact/reaction on the author and Wally by Wally's diagnosis and his worsen illness. It also covers other friends struggling with(but not only limited to) AIDS epedemics. It's a memoir of love, companionship, and of course agony.
One doesn't have to be gay or have experienced the loss of loved ones to appreciate this book. Every human being would be touched by the emotions flowing through out the book. The story line is not a typical one, rather, the book is a collection of beautifuly essays or in deed a philosophy book. Doty, a poet, has no doubt mastered the English languish (many times I'd just read out and listen.)
I found, however, the book is somewhat hard to read in the begining. Also some details were repeated as if not neatly organized partialy because they were taken from diffent essays. There is not much "being in love" story (I had hoped more) as the auther emphasized on "living in love"(which is equally great).
There is no doubt that the book is totaly worth reading and I strongly recommend it to everybody!
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredibly moving account of love in the age of AIDS
Comment: Poet Mark Doty, writes a dazzling memoir of love, life, and
passion, in Heaven's Coast.
His flowing prose and sense of timing, make this book hard to put down.
A must read for anyone, and gay men in particular.
Rating: 1
Summary: this book is not about AIDS
Comment: AIDS is a tragedy for the individual who experiences it, and for those who love them. But even if you have suffered at its hands, no-one should let you off the hook when you banalise it like this. 'Heaven's Coast' is over-written, self-important and embarrassing. I can only suppose that those who praise this writer's use of language come from the "more metaphors=more emotion" school of literature he favours, but like all self-indulgent writing, the effect of Doty's style is to cheat the genuine feeling behind it of a distinctive vocabulary, and to cheapen the suffering it depicts. There's something distasteful about watching someone using illness as an excuse to strike postures as hollow and self-regarding as this: 'Is this my work? To point at the world and say: look, see how darkly it sparkles?' From the precious rhetorical question to that faux-profound dark/light inversion, this is a typical instance of the book's extended masterclass in bad writing. If these were the outpourings of someone under the pressure of grief, they might be excusable, but Doty has worked hard to produce writing this overloaded: 'Wild, glimmering, watery horizons of sun, the watchful seals and shimmered flurries of snow seem to me to have more to do with the life of my spirit.' Even a teenager who'd just been taught about assonance and alliteration would balk at that sentence. This book, despite the horrors it sometimes documents, ends up reading like one long, shrill assertion of its own marvellous sensitivity, inviting the reader to congratulate themselves on their special ability to share in it. Sometimes bad writing is also morally questionable, and this is one of those times.
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Title: Firebird : A Memoir by Mark Doty ISBN: 0060931973 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Still Life With Oysters and Lemon : On Objects and Intimacy by Mark Doty ISBN: 0807066095 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 19 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic by Marie Howe, Michael Klein ISBN: 0892552085 Publisher: Persea Books Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS by Edmund White, Estate Project for Artists With AIDS, N.N.) Alliance for the Arts (New York ISBN: 0299170748 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 21 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette ISBN: 0156005816 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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