cover image Valley of the Shadow

Valley of the Shadow

Christopher Davis. St. Martin's Press, $7.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-312-02666-0

A young, gay, Manhattan investment banker dying of AIDS sets out his memoirs as a ``final gift'' to his lover, who has already succumbed to the disease, reported PW , maintaining that ``Davis pulls the strings of sentimentality competently enough to wrench the obvious tears in the expected places.'' (Dec . )