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Paul Monette - Becoming A Man, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

Becoming A Man

Half a Life Story

Av Paul Monette

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Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1994-05-19
  • Mått: 132 x 196 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 204 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Förlag: Little, Brown Book Group
  • ISBN: 9780349105499
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of United States National Book Awards: Nonfiction 1992
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Paul Monette was the author of six novels and three colections of poems. Becoming a Man was the 1992 National Book Award for non-fiction. He died in February 1995.

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A profound tale, wrenching as it is life-affirming, poetic as it is uncompromisingly real.

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1 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 4/5 Erica

    En självbiografisk berättelse om en ung mans smärtsamma småstadsuppväxt i en tid då homosexualitet var detsamma som evigt utanförskap. För mig, som hade min egen komma ut-process att brottas med, så var "Becoming a man" full av igenkänning & återupplevd ensamhet. Boken fick 1992 års National Book Award för non-fiction - bara tre år innan Pau Monette själv avled i AIDS.