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Secret Life : An Autobiography by Michael Ryan is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

What is Secret Life : An Autobiography about?

A memoir whose sensational subject—childhood molestation and sexual addiction—becomes, through the extraordinary candor and dispassion of its telling, a deeply moral and spiritual autobiography. Michael Ryan came of age in the fifties and sixties—a seemingly idyllic period for him of Little League baseball. Boy Scout overnight hikes, a first job delivering newspapers, summers spent at the community swimming pool, cruising Main Street, and high school graduation trips to the Jersey shore. But the reality that lay beneath this chrome surface was a secret life that was initiated when, as a five-year-old, Ryan was molested by a neighbor. It continued as he contended with his father’s alcoholism, and as he himself started down the road of sexual obsession. The details offered in Secret Life are intimate, but every one of them clarifies and enlarges this unblinking testament to the violence and the violation of others that are endemic to our culture. Told without self-pity or blame, with humor and wit, sensational but never sensationalistic. Secret Life is a memoir of redemptive power and grace.

Who reads Secret Life : An Autobiography?

Author

Michael Ryan

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679407751

Category

biography

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.54 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13