Although it follows the traditional structure of the autobiography and bildungsroman-early family life, education, reflections on how art influenced the subject's view of life- Becoming a Man also filters Monette's story through two central facts: the closet and AIDS. The passion and anger that fueled On Borrowed Time surfaces again in 1992's Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, his National Book Award-winning autobiography. In 1988 he wrote On Borrowed Time, a memoir of living with AIDS and of his lover's death. He established himself as a writer of popular fiction with three more novels before he and his lover were both diagnosed with HIV. Carroll, a comic romp with serious overtones. Paul Monette first made a name for himself in 1978 with his debut novel, Taking Care of Mrs.
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