Shark's Tooth

"Shark's Tooth is an extraordinary mixture of things: a poetry of immediate moments and sharply visual images, but also a retrospective, historical book, taken all together, a sort of cycle of life of Hofstadter's generation and the tribulations of those times, of which for him, of course, the AIDS epidemic was the worst. Immediate, but also full of memory and of a painful awareness of the passage of time, and of the uncertainty of tomorrow." -- Samuel Hynes