For eight years, he wrote poetry exclusively.Īfter coming out in his late twenties, he met Roger Horwitz, who was to be his lover for over twenty years.
He began his prolific writing career soon after graduating from Yale. He was educated at prestigious schools in New England: Phillips Andover Academy and Yale University, where he received his B.A. Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1945. The story of his journey to adulthood and to self-acceptance with grace and honesty, this intimate portrait of a young man’s struggle with his own desires is witty, humorous, and deeply felt.Ībout the author: In novels, poetry, and a memoir, Paul Monette wrote about gay men striving to fashion personal identities and, later, coping with the loss of a lover to AIDS. He wrestled with his sexuality for the first thirty years of his life, priding himself on his ability to “pass” for straight. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid suspected of being a “homo” would routinely be beaten up, Monette kept his secret throughout his adolescence. Also available in Kindle format.īook description: Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving.
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