Valley of the Shadow by Davis, Christopher - 1988

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree true 1stEd F/NrFine; not written-in, underlined, club, remainder or ex-library. Usually mails within 12 hours, full buyer protection, refund -- our business is founded on your satisfaction. ; 5.75 x 8.5 in.; 211 pages; From Publishers Weekly: A young investment banker dying of AIDS, looking back on his brief life in the richer and racier circles of New York City gay life, sets out his memoirs as "a final gift" to his lover, who has already died of the disease; dry-eyed readers will be in decidedly short supply. Davis (Joseph and the Old Man) covers much of the same ground memorably captured in the novels of Andrew Holleran, and will appeal to much the same audience, but the bittersweet sense of loss and nostalgia that informed Holleran's pre-epidemic depictions of the Manhattan and Fire Island gay milieux here has a sadly explicit basis in reality. Unfortunately, much of the rest of the narrator's world seems as artificial as his disease does inescapably real. Archetypes substitute for characters, whose personal hist .