num_pages: 304
description: A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's 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 of "the thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing."Searingly honest, witty, and humane, Becoming a Man is the definitive coming-out story in the classic coming-of-age genre.
language: English
title: Becoming a Man
titlecomplete: Becoming a Man
genres: LGBT, Autobiography, Gay, History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Sexuality, Memoir, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 3594
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Nonfiction
publisher: Perennial