BORROWED TIME: An AIDS Memoir <i> by Paul Monette (Avon: $8.95) </i>

In this often moving chronicle, Paul Monette describes the 19-month battle his lover, Roger Horwitz, waged against AIDS. A deeply felt account of love and sorrow, “Borrowed Time” recounts how the two men strove to preserve the life they shared, despite Horwitz’s inevitable decline. The luxuriousness of that life often undercuts the story: Monette and Horwitz had wealth and connections that enabled them to obtain comforts and experimental treatments not available to other patients. Despite this flaw, Monette has written a dignified yet angry testimony to the suffering wrought by AIDS. “Borrowed Time” is one of the first personal accounts of the sorrows of the pandemic; unhappily, many more undoubtedly will follow.