{"product_id":"9780060595647","title":"Becoming a Man : Half a Life Story","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBecoming a Man\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Paul Monette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe National Book Award winning memoir with a new foreword by Kathryn Harrison, author of The Kiss.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Fiercely committed to bequeathing a map of his psychic terrain, to spare others the pain of his solitary journey, [Monette’s] fine memoir is affirmative and ultimately celebratory.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA child of the 1950s from a small New England town, “perfect Paul” earns straight A’s and scholarships 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—“The thing I’d never even seen: two men in love and laughing.” This searingly honest, witty, and humane merging of memoir and manifesto has become the definitive coming out story—and a classic of the coming-of-age genre. It was awarded the 1992 National Book Award for nonfiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Everyone can learn something about courage and self-discovery from Becoming a Man.”\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life.”\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully written…a heartfelt illumination of how a gay person overcame the self-reproach that societal condemnation enacts.”\u003cbr\u003e“A poignant, bittersweet memoir….Each stage of [Monette’s] personal journey is described at an intimate, insightful, human level.”\u003cbr\u003e“Monette’s interior life, his ghosts, his turmoil, his final peace -- in Becoming a Man, they have become our literature.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060595647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41013451555022,"sku":"9780060595647","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780060595647.jpg?v=1647397421","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060595647","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}