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Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

Mark Doty

Winner:Literary Award -First Nonfiction (1997)
From a poet who won the National Book Critic's Circle Award and the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award all in one year, comes a beautiful, heart-breaking memoir of the death of his lover from AIDS.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Jan 31st, 1997
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.30in - 1.00in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9780060928056
  • Categories: EssaysLGBTQ+Memoirs

About the Author

Doty, Mark: -

Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.