The Best Thing An Almost True Story of Ladybugs and Sisters |
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| Author:
| Anna, Jennifer |
| Illustrator:
| Marsocci, Joey |
| ISBN: | 978-1-886383-26-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1997 |
| Publisher: | Blue Forge Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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Written with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Still Life with Buddy, a novel told in fifty poems, explores the passionate friendship between a woman and a gay man who dies of AIDS. Both deeply personal and undeniably universal, the narrator tells her story with rage, humor, sadness and most of all, undying love. Leslea Newman was awarded a 1997 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for a selection of poems from this...
More DescriptionWritten with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Still Life with Buddy, a novel told in fifty poems, explores the passionate friendship between a woman and a gay man who dies of AIDS. Both deeply personal and undeniably universal, the narrator tells her story with rage, humor, sadness and most of all, undying love. Leslea Newman was awarded a 1997 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for a selection of poems from this collection. The book is at once a gift to all readers and a testimony to the power of Newman's poetry. Nominated for a 2000 Lambda Literary Award.