Letters to Dorothy

David Rees

This book is the author's third collection of short stories. His continuing interest in observing gay life as it is lived in foreign cities is evident from the settings of many of these stories - Venice, Florence, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Prague, Budapest and Moscow - though London and his native Devon are not left out. Man's inhumanity to man with regard to HIV and AIDS is the major theme of the second half of this collecton: how we manage to live with this problem is the author's concern, for he strongly feels that AIDS literature does not have to end with a death. Some of the writing is autobiographical - he is not afraid to portray how he copes, and does not cope, with his own HIV infection.