Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

by Paul Monette | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 0349105499 Global Overview for this book
Registered by nachtgeier of Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on 2/3/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by nachtgeier from Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Paul Monette established himself as a writer of popular fiction before he and his lover were both diagnosed with HIV. In 1988 he wrote On Borrowed Time, a memoir of living with AIDS and of his lover's death. The passion and anger that fueled On Borrowed Time surfaces again in 1992's Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, his National Book Award-winning autobiography. Paul Monette did not lead a life different from many gay men. He struggled with his family, his sexuality, his AIDS diagnosis, but in bearing witness to his and others' pain, he creates a personal testimony that illuminates the darkest corners of our culture even as it finds unexpected reserves of hope.
Paul Monette died in February 1995.

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Released 14 yrs ago (3/9/2010 UTC) at Ehrenfeld - Goldmund (Literaturcafé) in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany

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Journal Entry 4 by wingFeodorawing at Valdštejnský palác in Praha, Praha Czech Republic on Sunday, September 19, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (9/17/2010 UTC) at Valdštejnský palác in Praha, Praha Czech Republic

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