Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story - Couverture rigide

Monette, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151115192 ISBN 13 : 9780151115198

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Monette Paul

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Everyone can learn something about courage and self-discovery from Becoming a Man.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life.” (L. A. Weekly)

“Beautifully written...a heartfelt illumination of how a gay person overcame the self-reproach that societal condemnation enacts.” (Publishers Weekly)

“A poignant, bittersweet memoir....Each stage of [Monette’s] personal journey is described at an intimate, insightful, human level.” (Library Journal)

“Monette’s interior life, his ghosts, his turmoil, his final peace -- in Becoming a Man, they have become our literature.” (--David Ebershoff, author of Pasadena and The Danish Girl)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0151115192
• ISBN 13: 9780151115198
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 278