Paul Monette





Paul Monette

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born
in Lawrence, Massachusetts, The United States
October 16, 1945

died
February 10, 1995

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In novels, poetry, and a memoir, Paul Monette wrote about gay men striving to fashion personal identities and, later, coping with the loss of a lover to AIDS.

Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1945. He was educated at prestigious schools in New England: Phillips Andover Academy and Yale University, where he received his B.A. in 1967. He began his prolific writing career soon after graduating from Yale. For eight years, he wrote poetry exclusively.

After coming out in his late twenties, he met Roger Horwitz, who was to be his lover for over twenty years. Also during his late twenties, he grew disillusioned with poetry and shifted his interest to the novel, not to return to poetry until the 1980s.

In 1977, Monette and Horwitz moved...more


Average rating: 4.10 · 3,115 ratings · 220 reviews · 27 distinct works · Similar authors
Becoming a Man: Half a Life...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,295 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 800 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
Last Watch of the Night: Es...
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
Afterlife
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
Halfway Home
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
Love Alone: Eighteen Elegie...
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Sanctuary: A Tale of Life i...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
Scarface
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
West of Yesterday, East of ...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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“Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.”
Paul Monette

“Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.”
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“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”
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