A.D., a memoir
By: Kate Millett.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Millett, Kate -- Family.; Feminists -- United States -- Family relationships.; Lesbians -- United States -- Family relationships.; Aunts -- United States -- Case studies.; Nieces -- United States -- Case studies.
Other titles: AD, a memoir
Description: This is a book about love and the influence of money. It is also a dialogue between artist and patron, student and teacher, and a story of growing up gay in a time and place where circumstances were sufficiently difficult to encourage dishonesty and dishonor. Kate Millett lied to her mentor, and confidante (and in a sense her first love), Aunt Dorothy - A.D. - in order to study at Oxford with her own first woman lover.

A.D. is about education and art and patronage - and about being gay in 1950s America - an impossible time of silence and shame, of largesses encumbered by "strings," coerced promises ending in deceit.