(P/B) BECOMING A MAN

Παρουσίαση

He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950s, 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. BECOMING 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 1950s through the rebellious 1960s to the self-creating 1970s and beyond, it forms a passionately honest and unsparing account of the tortures of living a lie, a naked portrait of one man's fight for freedom in a time of ignorance and bigotry. (From the publisher)