Books by Herve Guibert and Complete Book Reviews

Ghost Guibert, Author, Herve Guibert, Author, Robert Bononno, Translator Sun and Moon Press $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55713-267-3
This beautiful collection of essays treats photography to a series of snapshot-style studies--quick, candid and exquisitely felt--by an author who knew his subject intimately. Prior to his death from AIDS at age 36, Guibert was both a photo critic...
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Herve Guibert, Author, Guibert, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator Scribner Book Company $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-689-12120-3
``I had AIDS for three months,'' opens this moving French bestseller, which reads like a personal memoir. Delivered with wit, verve and valor by a seasoned author and former Le Monde journalist, the novel chronicles the experiences of its bisexual...
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Herve Guibert, Author, Hervc) Guibert, Author, Herv Guibert, Author Serpent's Tail $10.99 (108p) ISBN 978-1-85242-224-0
Guibert's narrator, also named Herve, returns to Paris after a week away to discover that his elderly great-aunts have been extorted and psychologically terrorized by gangsters posing as home repairmen. The police bungle the job as the aunts...
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Herve Guibert, Author, Hc)Rve Guibert, Author, Hrve Guibert, Author Serpent's Tail $14.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-85242-328-5
This witty and absorbing novel details the daily routines and medical condition of a writer diagnosed with AIDS. (Jan.)
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Herve Guibert, Author, James Kirkup, Translator George Braziller $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1414-3
Published posthumously, French novelist Guibert's hallucinatory, intensely lyrical parable is set in an institute for the blind, where Josette and Robert, a sightless married couple, share a room and play duets for harp and musical saw. Their asylum,
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Herve Guibert, Author, James Kirkup, Translator, James Kirkuo, Translator George Braziller $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1352-8
No longer able to tolerate the drug AZT, former Le Monde journalist Guibert ( To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life ) was accorded a reprieve from imminent death by the experimental drug DDI, which enabled him to record his experience of dying from
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