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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | The author of Monopolies of Loss provides a profound, poignant, and gently humorous portrait of a gay couple, Terry and William, as they cope with life, love, illness, and dreams in the modern world. 10,000 first printing. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Adam Mars-Jones | | Hardcover: | 183 pages | | Publisher: | Knopf | | Publication Date: | March 22, 1994 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0679419411 | | Package Length: | 8.0 inches | | Package Width: | 5.6 inches | | Package Height: | 0.9 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 4 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 An everyman who is a gay man Oct 09, 2000
By A. Hickman
Adam Mars-Jones' "The Waters of Thirst" is not a story of lust and unrelieved tumescence, such as those by better-known writers that often populate the shelves of "gay and lesbian" sections of bookstores. It is, rather, the story of William, a voice-over artist in London who has a monogamous relationship with Terry, an airline employee, and who enjoys tea-parties and socializing, but, who, in consequence of a medical crisis, has been reduced to sizing up his friends and neighbors as potential organ donors. It is kidney disease that is slowly overtaking his life, dictating that he may not even sleep in the arms of his lover of fourteen years and that he must transfer his amatory fantasies onto an American porn star, Peter Hunter, who may himself be dying of a degenerative disease. When we learn that William is in an AIDS ward, not because he has AIDS, but because he has just had a kidney transplant operation that appears to have gone badly, the narrative takes on the quality of a confession. Williams remembers the petty moments in his life with Terry, as when he used to humiliate him in grocery stores by parodying Terry's mother, who "listened" to the syrup levels in tins of fruit before buying them. Some of that pettiness threatens to follow William to the grave, as when he sends out a musical dedication to Terry over the hospital radio but misspells his lover's name as "Terri" on the request form to avoid embarrassment. But it is William's authentic narrative voice--the voice of everyman--rendered in masterful stream-of-consciousness form, that will continue to haunt the reader look after he has put down the book. Neither a stereotype nor an aberration, William is a man who lives and loves and who wants to continue doing both, just like the rest of us, even though he has been randomly picked out for extermination by a disease. In "The Waters of Thirst," Mars-Jones has written a novel that portrays a homosexual protagonist as everyman. May every man who reads it be enriched by the experience.
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 Original and Realistic. AMJ tells it like it is. Apr 05, 1999
This is one of the finest books I have ever read. Though it can be hard to get through (because it is not broken into chapters or sections), once you read it and get the last image, you're so in touch with the character it makes you want to cry. I almost did! Here is a man who has one of the greatest holds on characterization I have ever witnessed. It's a shame so many people won't buy him because he's not trendy enough. I only hope that he publishes another book sometime, since I see that none of his other stuff is in print anymore.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
liked it a lot Apr 05, 1999
To be honest, when I got this book at a bargainsale I didn't have high hopes. But I was proven wrong. Mars-Jones writes with a great, wry sense of humour and offers funny insights. Yes, it IS about a sick man, but it doesn't feel like that at all, it is as if the suffering is almost like an afterthought. A very original story.
0 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 soap operatic, tedious, poor writing Oct 09, 2001
I don't know which is worse, the author's sneering tone or the soap operatic situations that move the so-called plot.Mars-Jones (I pray that this is a stage name) strains to be hip but fails. I gave up about halfway through this exercise in tedium, so forgive me if the book suddenly got interesting just when I tossed it (but I seriously doubt the author could have found his way by then).
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