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5 unusual facts about I Was Dora Suarez


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In 1993, Johnston and Edwards collaborated with writer Derek Raymond on the Dora Suarez album and associated multimedia performance at the National Film Theatre the following year, based on Raymond's novel I Was Dora Suarez.

I Was Dora Suarez

Writing for The New York Times, Marilyn Stasio proclaimed: “Everything about I Was Dora Suarez … shrieks of the joy and pain of going too far.”

Robin Cook has read some extracts of his novels in a live "performance" with background music by the band Gallon Drunk.

Autopsy results accrue the revulsion as they compound the puzzle: Suarez was dying of AIDS, but the pathologist is unable to determine how she had contracted HIV.

Showing up its surfeit of intestinal fortitude, the French government named its author a Chevalier of Arts and Letters in 1991.



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