HIV & AIDS in Fiction
Selected Titles at the Springfield City Library |
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Fiction is shelved alphabetically by the author's last name. Please consult the online catalog or check with a librarian to verify location and availability.
- A Crack in Forever by Jeannie Brewer
- Instantly attracted to each other during an art session, medical student Eric Moro and artist Alexandra Taylor find their happiness shattered when Eric discovers that he has AIDS.
- Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories by Emily Carter
- Glory, an HIV-positive drug addict, leaves the drugs and sex of the Lower East Side to find meaning to love and life in a Minnesota rehabilitation community
- What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
- When Ava Johnson discovers she is HIV positive, she journeys back to her sleepy northern Michigan hometown, where she manages to find new love.
- Miracle Cure by Harlan Coben
- When Dr. Bruce Grey and Dr. Harvey Riker find a cure for AIDS, two young lovers - popular TV journalist Sara Lowell, and Knicks star Michael Silverman – find themselves inextricably caught up in the political double dealings involved in the discovery.
- Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
- The friendship between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric and proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS.
- Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganis
- In 1980, a young Southern aristocrat arrives in New York to pursue his artistic ambitions, falling in love with both a gifted male composer and a failed debutante turned painter, until their brilliant circle of gifted and artistic friends falls prey to the ravages of AIDS.
- The Day Eazy-E Died by James Earl Hardy
- After his idol, rapper Eazy-E, dies from AIDS, Raheim examines the ethics of his own love life as he awaits the results of test to determine his HIV status.
- L'il Mama's Rules by Sheneska Jackson
- Madison, a teacher at an exclusive all-Black private school, has only one rule in dating men – trust no one – but when she eventually does give away her heart, tragedy is the result.
- Above the Thunder by Renee Manfredi
- Anna Brinkman, a widow who has been estranged from her heroin-addicted daughter, finds her life turned upside down when her son-in-law and granddaughter, Flynn, arrive, without her daughter, and Anna agrees to help raise the troubled Flynn.
- Acqua Calda by Keith McDermott
- As actor Gerald prepares to die from AIDS, he receives a last chance to perform in Sicily and finds himself living in Italy and falling in love with another actor when he though he would be dying in a hospital.
- Women in the Grove by Paula W. Peterson
- Presents a portrait of life with AIDS in a collection of stories about women who discover they are HIV-positive.
- Dorian: An Imitation by Will Self
- A contemporary retelling of the themes in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray finds homosexual and drug addict Henry Wotton at the center of a clique that includes his artist friend, Hallward, and the beautiful young Dorian, in a story set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic.
- In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer
- William Parker, a shy, impotent stutterer who is insecure about himself and his sexuality, leaves Jackson Hole for Manhattan, where he finds himself surrounded by people who understand him and becomes embroiled in a love affair with an African-American drag queen, but the AIDS epidemic could destroy everything.
- The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
- With AIDS about to claim a well-love young man, three generations of his family are reunited at his bedside in Ireland, in a novel that explores the nature of love and the complex interrelationships among family members.
- The Married Man by Edmund White
- Romantic sparks fly when a lonely furniture scholar falls in love with a married man much younger than himself.
- Blind Eye by John Morgan Wilson
- HIV-positive journalist Benjamin Justice is asked for help in a case involving a decades old child murder, a controversial cardinal, and elements from his own past.
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