Koolaids
By: Rabih Alameddine
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780802124142
Subjects: Patients; Fiction; AIDS (Disease); Gay men; History
Other titles: Kool aids
Description: Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family during the eighties and nineties, Koolaids mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments. Clips, quips, vignettes and hallucinations, tragic news reports and hilarious short plays, conversations with both the quick and the dead, all shine their combined lights to reveal the way we experience life today.
Notes: First published in 1998 by Picador USA. --- From title page verso.