He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church, getting straight A's at school, a scholar destined for success. But he already had a secret, and his public life with family and friends was already a constant round of ventriloquism as he played the joker and pretended to be the same as everyone else. For Paul Monette was gay. BECOMING A MAN is about growing up gay, and about the tyranny and self denial of the closet - one man's struggle, for half his life, to come out. From the ...
Read More
He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church, getting straight A's at school, a scholar destined for success. But he already had a secret, and his public life with family and friends was already a constant round of ventriloquism as he played the joker and pretended to be the same as everyone else. For Paul Monette was gay. BECOMING A MAN is about growing up gay, and about the tyranny and self denial of the closet - one man's struggle, for half his life, to come out. From the white-bread 1950's through the rebellious 1960's to the self-creating 1970's and beyond, it forms a passionately honest and unsparing account of the tortures of living a lie, a naked protrait of one man's fight for freedom in a time of ignorance and bigotry.
Read Less
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $0.99, good condition, Sold by BookHolders rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gambrills, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by HarperOne.
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $0.99, very good condition, Sold by More Than Words rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waltham, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by HarperOne.
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $0.99, good condition, Sold by More Than Words rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waltham, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by HarperOne.
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $1.33, good condition, Sold by Gulf Coast Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Memphis, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by HarperSanFrancisco.
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $1.48, good condition, Sold by Orion Tech rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Arlington, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $1.99, good condition, Sold by Gladewater Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gladewater, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Harperone.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. light wear to corners of cover, page blocks slightly smudged, library markings; text and binding fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $1.99, very good condition, Sold by Cuyahoga Valley Book Company rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Peninsula, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Harper San Francisco.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. GREAT BOOK! NO SPINE CREASES & MODERATE WEAR ON LAMINATED COVER. A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS, NO MARKINGS IN TEXT. Description: Both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story, this memoir by Paul Monette (1945-1995) tells about what he considered his "wasted years"--the years before he met the man who would become his long-term lover, and before he came out as a homosexual. The author discusses the pain of being a closeted homosexual, and of AIDS, which claimed the lives of many of his friends. Though the story follows the usual autobiography format, describing his early life, family, education, and later life, the writing is infused with a sense of the political, and the author's anger clearly comes through.
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $2.29, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Little Brown and Company.
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $2.29, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Little Brown and Company.
Add this copy of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to cart. $2.30, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Harper Perennial.