![]() “Becoming a Man,” then, is the story of Paul’s inventive, determined and hopeless attempt to be the kind of man convention in the 1950s and ‘60s required. Monette’s memoir details the half-life of a talented and attractive boy who is smart enough to see that his own nature is something he needs to disguise and sensitive enough to try to heed the culture’s message by denying it. ![]() “Becoming a Man” tells the story of the closet that most gay men and lesbians inhabit from the time they intuit that their sexual orientation is stigmatized, when the apparatus of society and the intimacies of family become rapids to be negotiated. ![]() ![]() Nobody has written this book before, but countless men and women have lived the life Paul Monette describes in his new autobiography. ![]()
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