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All the Young Men (Hardcover)
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All the Young Men (Hardcover)
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List price R631
Loot Price R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
You Save R51 (8%)
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In 1986, 26-year old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she
notices that the door to one of the hospital rooms is painted red.
She witnesses nurses drawing straws to see who would tend to the
patient inside, all of them reluctant to enter the room. Out of
impulse, Ruth herself enters the quarantined space and immediately
begins to care for the young man who cries for his mother in the
last moments of his life. Before she can even process what she's
done, word spreads in the community that Ruth is the only person
willing to help these young men afflicted by AIDS, and is called
upon to nurse them. As she forges deep friendships with the men she
helps, she works tirelessly to find them housing and jobs, even
searching for funeral homes willing to take their bodies - often in
the middle of the night. She cooks meals for tens of people out of
discarded food found in the dumpsters behind supermarkets, stores
rare medications for her most urgent patients, teaches sex-ed to
drag queens after hours at secret bars, and becomes a beacon of
hope to an otherwise spurned group of ailing gay men on the fringes
of a deeply conservative state. Throughout the years, Ruth defies
local pastors and nurses to help the men she cares for: Paul and
Billy, Angel, Chip, Todd and Luke. Emboldened by the weight of
their collective pain, she fervently advocates for their safety and
visibility, ultimately advising Governor Bill Clinton on the
national HIV-AIDS crisis. This deeply moving and elegiac memoir
honors the extraordinary life of Ruth Coker Burks and the beloved
men who fought valiantly for their lives with AIDS during a most
hostile and misinformed time in America.
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