Becoming a Man

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"Everyone can learn something about courage and self-discovery from becoming a Man." — San Francisco Chronicle
A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and scholarships and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret—from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be or at least to imitate a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy, and unrequited passion, Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream—"The thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing." This searingly honest, witty, and humane merging of memoir and manifesto promises to become the definitive coming out story—and a classic of the coming-of-age genre. It was awarded the 1992 National Book Award for nonfiction.
"Maybe one of the great American autobiographies. A book in which virtually every gay man will see himself; with which virtually every... Tovább

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autobiogb-aphy
"Everyone can learn something about courage and self-discovery from becoming a Man." — San Francisco Chronicle
A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and scholarships and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret—from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be or at least to imitate a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy, and unrequited passion, Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream—"The thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing." This searingly honest, witty, and humane merging of memoir and manifesto promises to become the definitive coming out story—and a classic of the coming-of-age genre. It was awarded the 1992 National Book Award for nonfiction.
"Maybe one of the great American autobiographies. A book in which virtually every gay man will see himself; with which virtually every lesbian and bisexual will empathize; which will powerfully move the parents, siblings, and friends of gays. as witty as it is anguished and as full of understanding as of anger, this is Monette's best book. "
— Booklist
"One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life."
— L .A. Weekly
Paul Monette is the author of six novels and three collections of poems, as well as the acclaimed Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. Vissza