Becoming a man
half a life story
by Paul Monette
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A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret—from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy and unrequited passion, Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream of "the thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing."
Searingly honest, witty, and humane, Becoming a Man is the definitive coming-out story in the classic coming-of-age genre.
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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
2014, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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Becoming a man: half a life story
2004, Perennial Classics
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Becoming a man: half a life story
1993, HarperSanFrancisco
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Becoming a man: half a life story
1992, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Becoming a man: half a life story
1992, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992.
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