{"product_id":"9781805680390","title":"The Thread","description":"Author(s): Bourdin, Christophe, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/11\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 176 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Pushkin Press Classics,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: PUSHKIN PRESS                  ,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945),\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 16\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9781805680390\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristophe Bourdin was certain he would be the author of a single book. Diagnosed HIV-positive at the height of the epidemic in Paris, he began writing the exquisitely beautiful, painfully intense pages that would become The Thread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins with the hypochondriac days: days of obsessive hygiene, of microscopic attention to contamination, of seeing dangers everywhere. In serpentine sentences that capture the frenzied paranoia of the time, Bourdin recreates the consciousness of a young gay man whose world has suddenly become charged with threat. With his illness becoming manifest, the man writes a diary to record the passing of his final days. Beginning with searing intensity, the entries gradually become mixed with currents of fantasy and visions of an alternative future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1994, The Thread is appearing in English for the first time in a stunning translation by the prize-winning Jeffrey Zuckerman. Lucid and moving, it is an essential lost classic of AIDS literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bourdin, Christophe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57011154387330,"sku":"9781805680390","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9781805680390.jpg?v=1793546075","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9781805680390","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}