From a Burning House: The AIDS Project Los Angeles Writers Workshop Collection, Edited by Irene Borger

*Used - fair condition

Published by Washington Square Press 1996

This powerful collection of stories, poems, and 'fragments' gives voice to the people--those with HIV, as well as their caregivers--who do battle at the front line of the epidemic. It is an intense celebration of life led at the precipice.

The themes explored in this collection are simple and universal: love, fear, friendship, loss. But these works possess a unique quality, as they describe a world on fire, a world where lives are quickened by the reality of AIDS. For the writers in the workshop, the creative process can be healing. For the reader, the result is profoundly moving: a tapestry of writings that are at once witty, wise and a painfully vibrant connection to the way we live now.