Diary of a lost boy

Alternate Titles

• Lost boy

Description

The final work of the Obie Award-winning playwright of Zero Positive is a glowingly upbeat testament to life and love, gay and straight, now and forever. Susan and Bill are a New York couple who promise to care for their HIV-positive friend, Hector. But suddenly their marriage is breaking up--and Hector has placed himself smack in the middle.

Description

Part screwball comedy, part (screwball) tragedy - a brilliantly original novel about love and marriage, gay and straight, in the age of AIDS. At the center, Hector Diaz - seen everywhere around New York, glamorous, in the know, streetwise. He is also HIV-positive and in clinical trials. His two closest friends, Susan and Bill, have lived a seemingly idyllic marriage and have vowed to care for Hector until the end. But suddenly the marriage is breaking apart - and Hector, while coping with his own insidious nightmare, has placed himself smack in the middle of theirs. We watch as Hector is pulled into the twister of his friends' trendy but collapsing life, and is tossed and whirled along its crazy itinerary - from Bill's support group (for straight philanderers) to an intime holiday in the Caribbean, just the three of them. As the novel, moving toward reconciliation, culminates in a pastoral extravaganza - a country wedding in which two grooms in sky blue promise to love, honor, and cherish - Hector moves from fear through revelation to acceptance of his approaching death.

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Other Editions

• Diary of a lost boy: a novelKnopf1994-01-01
• Diary of a lost boyRiverhead Books1995