pstrongThe National Book Award winning memoir with a new foreword by Kathryn Harrison, author of The Kiss.strongppstrongFiercely committed to bequeathing a map of his psychic terrain, to spare others the pain of his solitary journey, Monette's fine memoir is affirmative and ultimately celebratory. -- emNew York Times Book Reviewemstrongp pA child of the 1950s from a small New England town, perfect Paul earns straight A's and scholarships 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--The thing I'd never even seen two men in love and laughing. This searingly honest, witty, and humane merging of memoir and manifesto has become the definitive coming out story--and a classic of the coming-of-age genre.