About this title: Both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story, this memoir by Paul Monette (1945-1995) tells about what he considered his "wasted years"--the years before he met the man who would become his long-term lover, and before he came out as a homosexual. The author discusses the pain of being a closeted homosexual, and of AIDS, which claimed the lives of ...
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. front cover slightly bent. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Ex-Library
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780062507242ISBN:0062507249
Description: Very Good. GREAT BOOK! NO SPINE CREASES & MODERATE WEAR ON LAMINATED COVER. A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS, NO MARKINGS IN TEXT. Description: Both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story, this memoir by Paul Monette (1945-1995) tells about what he considered his "wasted years"--the years before he met the man who would become his long-term lover, and before he came out as a homosexual. The author discusses the pain of being a closeted homosexual, and of AIDS, which claimed the lives of many of his friends ... read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780151115198ISBN:0151115192
Description: Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Book is in excelent +++ condition. Daily Shipping. F a n t a s t i c R e a d i n g! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 278 p. Audience: General/trade. Topics Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Gay; Gay men; General; Monette, Paul; Non-Fiction; United States read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 278 p. Audience: General/trade. softcover, very light edge wear to covers, text clean and unmarked, no spine crease. read more
"This is an incredibly well written memoir. I picked it up on a whim based on the advice of the bookseller. Just calling this a coming out story wouldn't do it justice. It far more complex than that. I like it for its depiction of the New England upper crust in the 50s and 60s (Philips Academy, Yale etc) and his fine-tuned description of the people in his lives. It's the perspective of an outsider looking in."
"I read this book in my early 20s and it was transcendental for me, a newly out gay man. I went back, recently, and it didn't quite have the same impact.
If you're newly out, or still feel "raw," as only a gay man can feel, in terms of self-image and the worry one can feel about others' image of him, I strongly recommend this book.
If you're sensitive, a reflector, a thinker and a ponderer; if you have so much baggage that it's weighing you down to drowning and you simply need to know that someone somewhere went through the same similar thoughts and feelings, read this memoir; read this story.
It helped me deal with my mother, an absent father, and my own self-loathing. Through Monette's own tragedy, I started to find a way out from underneath my own."
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