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Becoming A Man
Half a Life Story
Av Paul Monette
Häftad, 1994
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
156 kr
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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 …
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Av Paul Monette
Häftad, 1998
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
283 kr
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Last Watch Of The Night
Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
Av Paul Monette
Häftad, 1995
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
316 kr
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Winner of the National Book Award for Becoming a Man, his candid and passionate account of growing up gay in a time of ignorance and bigotry, this third volume of Paul Monette's autobiographical writing brings together an eclectic collection of essays written under the shadow of AIDS.Meditative, …
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A Tale of Life in the Woods
Av Paul Monette
Häftad, 2014
250 kr
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From the author of the National Book Award winner Becoming a Man comes a fairy tale that captures the strangeness of society’s rules and the liberating nature of love as the Great Horned Owl is brought to life as he sets an intolerant agenda in a mystical forest. In this collection of fables, Paul …
West of Yesterday, East of Summer
New and Selected Poems (1973–1993)
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
246 kr
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A poetry collection spanning the career of award-winning writer Paul MonettePaul Monette got his start writing poetry, and it was to this form that he returned following the death of his partner Roger Horwitz from AIDS-related complications. This stunning collection includes Monette''s early work …
No Witnesses
Poems
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
166 kr
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An enthralling collection of poetry from National Book Award winner Paul Monette “Come, / what can the body do but go on, when / the best of us are eaten from within?” writes Paul Monette in the titular poem. This mixture of doom and determinedness is played out with humor and warmth in Monette’s …
Carpenter at the Asylum
Poems
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
246 kr
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National Book Award winner Paul Monette''s acclaimed first book of poetryOriginally published in 1975, The Carpenter at the Asylum was Monette''s first literary success. In this collection of poems, he writes with playfulness and candor of everything from fairy tales to the change of seasons. "All …
Love Alone
Eighteen Elegies for Rog
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
246 kr
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Paul Monette''s fierce and arresting collection of poems on the death of his partner from AIDSFollowing his partner Roger Horwitz''s death from AIDS in 1986, Paul Monette threw himself into these elegies. Writing them, he says, "quite literally kept me alive." Both beautifully written and deeply …
Gold Diggers
A Novel
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
246 kr
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Paul Monette''s uproarious, sexy novel takes us deep into the glamorous world of vintage Los AngelesPerched on top of a hill in the oldest part of Bel Air, Crook House is the grand mansion that gilded Hollywood dreams are made of. It seemed like the perfect place for the exhausted and neurotic Rita …
Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll
A Novel
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
17 kr
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Now that Mrs. Carroll has died, the race for control of her elegant home has begunIt is incredible how the death of a loved one can bring people together. Especially when greedy developers waste no time in attempting to steal the Cape Cod estate of the person in question.Before she could add a …
Lightfall
A Novel
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
17 kr
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In the village of Pitts Landing, true evil can linger for centuriesIt all started with the desperate urging of an internal voice, born from a pulse-pounding nightmare: Run. With that, Iris Ammons felt impelled to leave behind her husband, her children, her job, and her idyllic life. Her motive was …
Long Shot
A Novel
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
166 kr
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An unlikely pair races to find a murderer in the hazy underbelly of Los AngelesVivien Cokes and her husband, Jasper, are LA royalty, and they have the lifestyle to prove it. Big parties, a huge mansion in Malibu, and complicated affairs are all part of the package. However, during a morning swim, …
Afterlife
A Novel
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
241 kr
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A powerful exploration of the way AIDS reshapes relationships and livesAfterlife is a haunting and unforgettable story of men facing loss and seeking love, movingly capturing the moment in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was completely devastating the American gay community. Here, National Book …
Halfway Home
A Novel
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
166 kr
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Tom tried everything to get away from the world—but it had a way of getting back to himWhen Tom was diagnosed with AIDS, he thought of it as a death sentence. His life was effectively over. He packed up everything and moved to a beach house in California. There, he could live out what remained of …
Borrowed Time
An AIDS Memoir
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
227 kr
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“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man ( Publishers Weekly ). In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of …
Becoming a Man
Half a Life Story
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
227 kr
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The National Book Award–winning coming-out memoir. "One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life" (LA Weekly).Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving . . . and closeted. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid suspected of …
Last Watch of the Night
Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
154 kr
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Tender and passionate autobiographical essays by the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man."Does it go too fast?" Monette asks about life at the beginning of one piece. The answer is a resounding "yes" for the individuals who populate this stunning work of nonfiction. These ten …
Gold Diggers
A Novel
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2014
167 kr
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Paul Monette''s uproarious, sexy novel takes us deep into the glamorous world of vintage Los AngelesPerched on top of a hill in the oldest part of Bel Air, Crook House is the grand mansion that gilded Hollywood dreams are made of. It seemed like the perfect place for the exhausted and neurotic Rita …
Reflections
The World of Paul Monette
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2017
153 kr
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From an acclaimed memoirist and National Book Award winner: Three groundbreaking works of nonfiction put a human face on the AIDS epidemic.Paul Monette''s searing memoirs of growing up, coming out, and losing his beloved partner to AIDS are now available in a single volume. Becoming a Man: This …
Selected Works
Afterlife; Halfway Home; Love Alone; and West of Yesterday, East of Summer
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2018
706 kr
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Two novels and two collections of poetry, all powerful reflections on the AIDS experience, from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man. Afterlife: Three men bond after their lovers die of AIDS, all within a week of one another in the same Los Angeles hospital. Each of the men …
Early Novels
Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, The Gold Diggers, The Long Shot, and Lightfall
Av Paul Monette
E-bok, 2018
232 kr
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Four novels of humor, sex, mystery, and horror from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man. Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll: Mrs. Beth Carroll has tragically passed away. Now, it is up to the unlikely team of her lover, Phidias; her houseboy, David; David''s ex-boyfriend Rick; and a …
