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Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS Paperback – March 1, 1994

by Jameson Currier (Author)

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With profound literary courage, Chekhovian compassion, and humor, Currier writes not only about those who are living with AIDS and those who have died from it, but also about the friends, families, and lovers who nurse and care for the sick and remember them afterward.

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (March 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140172726
ISBN-13: 978-0140172720
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 5 inches
Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,510,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #31580 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Literature & Fiction > Fiction > Gay
- #39033 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Anthologies
- #176728 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary

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Transcendentally Excellent

By T. Stanford Mommaerts-Browne on June 7, 2001

Format: Paperback

I saw that this book had not yet been reviewed. It was so good that I had to try to encourage others to pick it up. I read it at work & many of my co-workers could not understand how a book on AIDS could be good. It must be too depressing. Well, yes. It is sad. But so is Long Days Journey into Night, Anne Frank's Diary & many other works of an enduring nature.
This collection clearly presents the human condition & human nature. Ironicly, the collection is spiritually uplifting.
The works, of course, are predominantly of Gay men & their loved ones. But there are others; and all characters are presented first & foremost as Humans, not Gay nor Straight; not Black nor White; not Jewish nor Goy.
Bottom line: It is moving and affecting. It is cathartic. And anyone who wants to know what it is to lose a loved one to anything ought to read it.

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Brilliant Short Stories Set During An Epidemic

By Reader from Washington, DC on April 13, 2013

Format: Hardcover

I read "Dancing on the Moon" when it was first published. It is a collection of finely honed, elegaic short stories about gay men living through the early years of the AIDS epidemic, before medication was discovered that would stabilize the illness. These stories are set in the period when people living with AIDS didn't live, but died within a year or two years of diagnosis.

And yet the short stories, despite their somber theme, are surprisingly upbeat and affirmative, and sometimes humorous, filled with minutely observed details of peoples' surroundings and subtle shifts in friendships and love affairs as both the caretakers and their ailing friends and lovers try to make the most of the last few months, the last year ...

The stories have the intensity of a final series of photographs taken of someone you love.