![]() ![]() That same year he released the poetry collection Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog. It received a National Book Critic's Circle Award nomination and won a Lambda Literary Award. When his boyfriend Roger Horwitz fell ill, Monette chronicled his agonizing demise β and his own fears β in Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988). On the front lines of the epidemic he picked up his pen and began to capture the horror as it happened. He was a capable writer, but he had not discovered his voice. ![]() Carroll (1978) and The Gold Diggers (1979). ![]() He had done a couple poetry books as well several gay novels like Taking Care of Mrs. Paul Monette's literary career was promising. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.β βThe struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. ![]()
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