num_pages: 313
description: "Heaven's Coast" is an anatomy of tender, heartbreaking, consoling and, ultimately, incredibly moving. Beginning with the first onset of AIDS and its lengthening shadow over a blissful relationship, the book follows the shifting patterns between two loves as the illness takes hold - the change in them and the change in the way they perceive the world, through the lens of grief. Doty examines the nature of AIDS as opposed to other illnesses, the responses of society, the frustration of medical care and the exhausting - and occasionally uplifting - burden of caring for the dying at home.
language: English
title: Heaven's Coast
titlecomplete: Heaven's Coast
genres: LGBT, Gay, Biography Memoir, Death, Biography, Health, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 1054
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Randy Shilts Award
category: Gay Nonfiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Vintage