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My 25 Years Without a Soul
Atlantic Books
May 2013
On Sale: April 30, 2013
ISBN: 0016438051
EAN: 2940016438054
Kindle: B00CLJAMII
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A young boy sitting on a piano bench realizes one day that
he will never marry. At the time, this seems merely a
simple, if odd, fact, but as his attraction to boys grows
stronger, he is pulled into a vortex of denial. Not just for
one year or even 10, but for 25 years, he lives in an
inverted world, a place like a photographic negative, where
love is hate, attraction is envy, and childhood never ends.
He comes to think of himself as a kind of monster—until one
day, seemingly miraculously, the world turns itself upright
and the possibility of love floods in. Equal parts Oliver Sacks and George Orwell, with moments of
Woody Allen, Jonathan Rauch’s memoir of his “inversion” is
by turns harrowing and funny, a grippingly intimate journey
through a bizarre maze of self-torment that ends with an
unexpected discovery. Many people, gay and straight, have
lived through their own versions of this story, seeking to
twist their personality in directions it just won’t go. Not
all have been lucky enough to escape.
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