Becoming A Man
€12.85
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780349105499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Monette |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.202 |
| Publishing Date | 19/05/1994 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €12.12 |
| Tax | €0.73 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €12.85 |
| Availability | 3 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.