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A Gay Man's Odyssey
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2012
On Sale: October 2, 2012
ISBN: 0374298718
EAN: 9780374298715
Kindle: B008E7TG2O
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Non-Fiction Memoir
My Husband and My Wives: A Gay’s Man’s Odyssey
is the memoir of a man looking back over eight
tumultuous decades at the complications of discovering at
puberty that he is attracted to other men. The ordeal
of remaining true to what his libido tells him is right, in
the midst of a disapproving and sometimes hostile
society, is one side of his story. Another is the impulsive
decision he made as a young adult to marry a woman who
fascinated him. This led him into entirely unanticipated
territory. He found himself suddenly a husband, a widower, a
groom for a second time, and, finally, the father of four
children and grandfather of six, though throughout it
all, he never abandoned his erotic involvement with
men. Perhaps most extraordinary is the story’s happy
conclusion: Charles Rowan Beye’s wedding four years ago to
the man who has been his companion for the last twenty
years. The remarkable journey from pariah to patriarch
is told with an eloquence, an honesty, and a sense of humor
that are uniquely Beye’s own. A personal history that is
also a history of evolving social mores, this wonderfully
original, challenging, life- and love-affirming account
could only have been written by the unconventional man who
lived through it all.
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