Paul Monette was an American writer and activist best known for his memoirs documenting the AIDS epidemic. His most famous works include Borrowed Time and the National Book Award winner Becoming a Man. He wrote
Becoming a Man
Becoming a Man
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A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's 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 of "the thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing." Searingly honest, witty, and humane, Becoming a Man is the definitive coming-out story in the classic coming-of-age genre.
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Becoming a ManUnknown, 2004
308 pages
HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9780060595647
