<b>Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love.</b><p>In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine...<br>—from <i>Crazy for Vincent</i></p><p><i>Crazy for Vincent</i> begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate “monster” of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert''s life over the span of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988). After Vincent''s senseless death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to retrieve the Vincent that had entered, elevated, and emotionally eviscerated his life, working chronological
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<p>By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol....
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<span><b>A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century’s most beloved French gay writers.</b></span><p><span></span></p><p><i><span>My Manservant</span><span></span><span>and...
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<b>Stories that map the writer''s artistic development, written with candor, detachment, and passion.</b><p>Hervé Guibert published twenty-five books before dying of AIDS in 1991 at age 36. An originator of French "autofiction"...
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With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White''Unforgettable, heartbreaking'' New York Times''As much about friendship, intimacy, and betrayal as it is...
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