The Way We Live Now (short story)
"The Way We Live Now" is a
AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, as the disease began to claim members of the New York cultural elite
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The story is told entirely in the form of fragments of conversation, mentioned and whispered by numerous friends of an unnamed man who lies sick in a hospital bed. Although AIDS was new to many who read the story when it first appeared, "The Way We Live Now" remains a signature work in the literature of the epidemic.[1]
Sontag borrowed her title from an 1875 novel by British writer Anthony Trollope titled The Way We Live Now.
References
- ^ Carl Edmund Rollyson, Lisa Olson Paddock. Susan Sontag: the making of an icon page. 2000, 264-6