

An edition of Koolaids (1998)
the art of war
By Rabih Alameddine
Publish Date
1998
Publisher
Picador USA
Language
eng
Pages
254
Description:
Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family during the eighties and nineties, Koolaids mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments. Clips, quips, vignettes and hallucinations, tragic news reports and hilarious short plays, conversations with both the quick and the dead, all shine their combined lights to reveal the way we experience life today.
subjects: Aids (disease), fiction, Fiction, gay, Middle east, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Lebanon, history, civil war, 1975-1990, fiction, Gay men, fiction, AIDS (Disease), Fiction, Gay men, History, Lebanon Civil War, 1975-1990, Patients, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay
Places: Lebanon
Times: Civil War, 1975-1990