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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story - Paperback

by Paul Monette
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul MonetteSeries:Perennial ClassicsPublish date:05/25/04Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060595647ISBN-10:60595647UPC:9780060595647Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, Human Sexuality (see also Social ScienceBook Topic:Gay Studies, Human Sexuality)Size:8.07 x 5.31 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCFR64AZVN

The National Book Award winning memoir with a new foreword by Kathryn Harrison, author of The Kiss.

"Fiercely committed to bequeathing a map of his psychic terrain, to spare others the pain of his solitary journey, [Monette's] fine memoir is affirmative and ultimately celebratory." -- New York Times Book Review

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 has 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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060595647ISBN-10:60595647UPC:9780060595647Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, Human Sexuality (see also Social ScienceBook Topic:Gay Studies, Human Sexuality)Size:8.07 x 5.31 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCFR64AZVN
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Paul Monette (1945-1995) is the author of many books, including seven novels, four volumes of poetry, and several highly praised nonfiction works, such as Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. In 1992, he received the National Book Award for Becoming a Man. He died of AIDS complications in 1995.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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