Hold Tight Gently by Martin Duberman

15/04/2014 12h 46min
Hold Tight Gently by Martin Duberman

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Title: Hold Tight Gently
Author: Martin Duberman
Narrator: Anthony Bowden
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
Release date: 04-15-14
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 22 ratings
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the US alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related complications - among them the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill. Meticulously researched and evocatively told, Hold Tight Gently is the celebrated historian Martin Duberman’s poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two of the great unsung heroes....