Becoming a Man - Paul Monette
A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, \perfect Paul\ earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret?from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy and unrequited passion, Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream of \the thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing.\Searingly..