Love Is the Cure

On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS

by: Sir Elton John

Love Is the Cure
Author: Sir Elton John

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

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ISBN: 0316219908 ISBN 13: 9780316219907

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In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. In the midst of the plague, he befriended Ryan White, a young Indiana boy ostracized by his town and his school because of the HIV infection he had contracted from a blood transfusion. Ryan's inspiring life and devastating death led Elton to two realizations: His own life was a mess. And he had to do something to help stop the AIDS crisis.
Since then, Elton has dedicated himself to overcoming the plague and the stigma of AIDS. He has done this through the Elton John AIDS Foundation, which has raised and donated $275 million to date to fighting the disease worldwide. "Love Is The Cure" is Elton's personal account of his life during the AIDS epidemic, including stories of his close friendships with Ryan White, Freddie Mercury, Princess Diana, Elizabeth Taylor, and others, and the story of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. With powerful conviction and emotional force, Elton conveys the personal toll AIDS has taken on his life -- and his infinite determination to stop its spread.
Elton writes, "This is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine, but by changing hearts and minds, and through a collective effort to break down social barriers and to build bridges of compassion. Why are we not doing more? This is a question I have thought deeply about, and wish to answer-and help to change-by writing this book."
Sales of "Love Is the Cure" benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Little, Brown & Company

City: New York

Pages: 243

More info: height 243 mm width 161 mm weight 485 gr thickness 25 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC21) 614.599392 Library of Congress Subject: AIDS (Disease)

Departments: Composers & musicians; Popular medicine;

Record updated at: 11 May, 2013 time: 00:59


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