Koolaids

Rabih Alameddine

earliest edition we have, 1998 Picador, 1999 paperback 256 pages

Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family during the eighties and nineties, Koolaids mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments. Clips, quips, vignettes and hallucinations, tragic news reports and hilarious short plays, conversations with both the quick and the...

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Editions we hold

Koolaids paperback · 2015 · Grove Press · 245 pages · 9780802124142
Koolaids audiobook · 2015 · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 9781511320450
Koolaids edition · 2015 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802190970
Koolaid's Art of War hardcover · 2000 · St. Martin's Press · 9780312181208
Koolaids edition · 1999 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 256 pages · 9780349110615
Koolaids paperback · 1999 · Picador · 256 pages · 9780312206581
Koolaids hardcover · 1998 · Picador · 256 pages
KOOLAIDS paperback · 1998 · PICADOR · 251 pages · 9780349110608

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