Reviews
Beautifully written.a heartfelt illumination of how a gay person overcame the self-reproach that societal condemnation enacts., One of the Most Complex, Moral, Personal, and Political Books to Have Been Written about Gay Life., A poignant, bittersweet memoir….Each stage of [Monette's] personal journey is described at an intimate, insightful, human level., A poignant, bittersweet memoir....Each stage of [Monette's] personal journey is described at an intimate, insightful, human level., Beautifully written...a heartfelt illumination of how a gay person overcame the self-reproach that societal condemnation enacts., Monette's interior life, his ghosts, his turmoil, his final peace -- in Becoming a Man, they have become our literature., A poignant, bittersweet memoir..Each stage of [Monette's] personal journey is described at an intimate, insightful, human level., Beautifully written…a heartfelt illumination of how a gay person overcame the self-reproach that societal condemnation enacts., "Everyone can learn something about courage and self-discovery from Becoming a Man." -- San Francisco Chronicle "One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life." -- L. A. Weekly "Beautifully written...a heartfelt illumination of how a gay person overcame the self-reproach that societal condemnation enacts." -- Publishers Weekly "A poignant, bittersweet memoir....Each stage of [Monette's] personal journey is described at an intimate, insightful, human level." -- Library Journal "Monette's interior life, his ghosts, his turmoil, his final peace -- in Becoming a Man, they have become our literature." -- --David Ebershoff, author of Pasadena and The Danish Girl
