It doesn’t come easily and with prose it’s no different. When I write, either personally or professionally, I find that my natural style – that which comes most easily to me – is to write polemically with splashes of vitriol. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone interested in either autobiographies or the struggles of gay men in straight America. I don’t think straight people will find it as meaningful given that it is written by a gay man, to gay people about gay men. In reading it I’ve had more than my fair share of chortles, tears and chokes – it is as moving as it is funny. Last month, while browsing through the second-hand bookstore opposite the Biscuit Mill in Cape Town I came across this autobiography by Paul Monette and quickly added it to the growing pile of books I ended up leaving with.
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