{"title":"G. S. Johnston","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"for-a-moment-more-a-novel-of-living-in-the-time-of-hiv-aids-paperback","title":"For A Moment More: A novel of living in the time of HIV\/AIDS - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs the very best fiction does, this novel showed me a world, and a time in history, I hadn't understood. For a Moment More is an act of generosity, as much as a tribute to lost friends.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eJOCK SERONG\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's 1993. Chris Roberts is thirty-three, HIV-positive for eight years and working at an Oxford Street hardware shop, while funerals, fear and failing health threaten to destroy him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen, on a balmy night in Darlinghurst, everything shifts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a dance party in Sydney's gay ghetto - midway through a performance of 'Something's Coming' by a life-sized Barbra Streisand puppet - Chris has an epiphany. Effective treatments will come. And if he wants to be around when the future arrives, he has to fight for his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChris's daily routine becomes an act of resilience and resistance, fuelled by a refusal to disappear quietly. He stares down his past, makes peace where he can and dares to imagine a time beyond HIV\/AIDS. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor a Moment More\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e captures the sharp wit, humour and fierce tenderness of those times. It's a story about love, farewelling friends, defiance and joy. It is about laughing in the face of fear.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375376629983,"sku":"9781764517614","price":33.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WMsPzXgKrX9781764517614.webp?v=1789200165"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/g-s-johnston.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}