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I'd like to give it three and a half stars. This book is powerful stuff, and well written. And not dated, despite quickly changing attitudes.
The force coursing through every page is embarrassment, and anger - rage that the author spent so many years loathing himself, or unconscious of his true nature.
BUT this book is not really much of a journey. Between the scene where his mother discovers him messing with another little boy on page 28, and the very final pages of the book, Monette himself doe ...more
The force coursing through every page is embarrassment, and anger - rage that the author spent so many years loathing himself, or unconscious of his true nature.
BUT this book is not really much of a journey. Between the scene where his mother discovers him messing with another little boy on page 28, and the very final pages of the book, Monette himself doe ...more
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 ...more
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 ...more
What a fantastic book!!!
It seems like parts of this book were my life -- so similar I wondered if I knew Paul. But other parts so very different. This book is certainly worth reading. Definitely one of my favorites.
It seems like parts of this book were my life -- so similar I wondered if I knew Paul. But other parts so very different. This book is certainly worth reading. Definitely one of my favorites.
One of the best stories of a gay man coming of age. It also looks at issues of class in America.
This is one of my favorite books.
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