BECOMING MAN: Half a Life Story (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

"Everyone can learn something about courage and self-discovery from Becoming a Man."--San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life."--L. A. Weekly

"A poignant, bittersweet memoir....Each stage of [Monette's] personal journey is described at an intimate, insightful, human level."--Library Journal

"Beautifully written...a heartfelt illumination of how a gay person overcame the self-reproach that societal condemnation enacts."--Publishers Weekly

"Monette's interior life, his ghosts, his turmoil, his final peace -- in Becoming a Man, they have become our literature."----David Ebershoff, author of Pasadena and The Danish Girl

The National Book Award-winning autobiography of a gay man's struggle with manhood focuses on the author's attempts to live a normal life while concealing the secret of his sexuality. By the author of Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. Reader's Guide available. Reprint