To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White''Unforgettable, heartbreaking'' New York Times''As much about friendship, intimacy, and betrayal as it is about sickness. ... Brilliant'' - Dazed''The father of autofiction, the master of finding that perfect balance of truth and beauty.'' Guardian''As brutal as it is elegant; shot through with a scalding and necessary rage.'' - Neil Bartlett, author, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall''Written with urgency, clarity ... it is electrifying in its searing honesty'' - Colm T¿ib¿'One of the most beautiful, haunting, and fascinating works in the French autofictional canon. Guibert grapples with his own AIDS diagnosis, and the death of his friend Muzil (Michel Foucault), in a dazzling piece of writing.'' - Katherine AngelAfter being diagnosed with AIDS, Herv¿uibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the