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Overview
The critically and popularly acclaimed coming of age/coming out story from the author of Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. "Witty as it is anguished and as full of understanding as of anger, this is Monette's best book."—BooklistBecoming a Man is a book about growing up gay, and about the tyranny and self hatred of the closet. One man's struggle, for half his life, to come out. It is also a book about America: from the starchy halls of privilege at Andover and Yale to the golden states of California.
Editorials
LA Weekly
One of the most most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life.L. A. Weekly
“One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life.”San Francisco Chronicle
"Everyone can learn something about courage and self-discovery from Becoming a Man."L.A. Weekly
"One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life."David Ebershoff
"Monette’s interior life, his ghosts, his turmoil, his final peace — in Becoming a Man, they have become our literature."Book Details
Published
June 1, 1993
Publisher
San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
Pages
278
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780062507242