BECOMING MAN: Half a Life Story - Brossura

Monette, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060595647 ISBN 13: 9780060595647

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2004

Riassunto

The National Book Award-winning autobiography of a gay man's struggle with manhood focuses on the author's attempts to live a normal life while concealing the secret of his sexuality. By the author of Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. Reader's Guide available. Reprint

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Recensione:

“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)

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060595647
• ISBN 13: 9780060595647
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304