Becoming a Man (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Monette
- First Published: 1992
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, England or English people, AIDS
- Locales: Europe, United States, England
The Work
It took the loss of his life partner Roger Horwitz, who died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1987, to turn Paul Monette from the poetry and fiction with which he began his career to the powerful autobiographical writing that will perhaps be seen as his chief contribution as a gay author. To memorialize the suffering and bravery of Horwitz’s battle with AIDS, Monette wrote Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988), which was much praised for its urgent, unflinching look at the disease and the ignorance and hatred surrounding it during the early...
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