Becoming a Man (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Monette
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, England or English people, AIDS
- Locales: Europe, United States, England
In many ways Monette’s autobiography is as much a gay morality tale—an illustration of the horrors and self-debasements of the closeted life and the need to abandon them for the freely integrated existence that coming out makes possible—as it is narrative of his particular life story. As he recounts his journey from darkness to light, from furtive acts of self-loathing to public acts of self-assertion, he regularly interrupts the chronology in the voice of the angry and passionate forty-seven-year old HIV-positive gay man that he is, urging young gays and lesbians to renounce the...
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