{"product_id":"becoming-a-man-half-a-life-story","title":"Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story","description":"Review\n\nA profound tale, wrenching as it is life-affirming, poetic as it is uncompromisingly real. ― VILLAGE VOICE\n\nA daring and heartbreaking memoir. ― BOSTON GLOBE\n\nAffirmative and ultimately celebratory. ― NEW YORK TIMES\n\nEveryone can learn about courage and self-discovery from BECOMING A MAN. ― SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE\n\nSearingly honest and lyrically beautiful...an unforgettable account of growing up gay in America. ― Esquire\n\nProduct Description\n\nHe grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church, getting straight A's at school, a scholar destined for success. But he already had a secret, and his public life with family and friends was already a constant round of ventriloquism as he played the joker and pretended to be the same as everyone else. For Paul Monette was gay.\n\nBECOMING A MAN is about growing up gay, and about the tyranny and self denial of the closet - one man's struggle, for half his life, to come out. From the white-bread 1950's through the rebellious 1960's to the self-creating 1970's and beyond, it forms a passionately honest and unsparing account of the tortures of living a lie, a naked protrait of one man's fight for freedom in a time of ignorance and bigotry.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nPaul Monette was the author of six novels and three colections of poems. Becoming a Man was the 1992 National Book Award for non-fiction. He died in February 1995.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39678306484309,"sku":"9780349105499N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/05bc2bd2-80e8-42f8-b586-f70cee5b6370.jpg?v=1644293074","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/becoming-a-man-half-a-life-story","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}