Way We Live Now

Random House (UK), 1994. First Edition THUS. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.First edition THUS. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Printed in Great Britian. 30 pages. Artist Book rendition of the author's story on AIDS. One of the greatest short stories of the 20th century. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Susan Sontag. Art by Howard Hodgkin. Printed on archival, thick coated (for the art) and uncoated (for the text) stock papers in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Susan Sontag's and Howard Hodgkin's ""The Way We Live Now"". Widely regarded as the best fictional account ever written on AIDS at the height of its devastation. The author's story is interpreted by the greatest British abstract painter of our time, in luminous aquatints that are beautifully reproduced in this edition as fold outs. Hodgkin spent more than four years working on them to ensure, by his own account, that he captured the short story's finely modulated emotional temperature faithfully. No extraneous markings. All pages are intact and binding is strong. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.