Firebird: A Memoir
by Doty, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0060193743
- ISBN 13
- 9780060193744
- Seller
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Morganton, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
In Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's "Get Happy" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, "Son, you're a boy!"Firebird presents us with a heroic little boy who has quite enough worries without discovering that his dawning sexuality is the Wrong One. A self-confessed "chubby smart bookish sissy with glasses and a Southern accent," Doty grew up on the move, the family following his father's engineering work across America-from Tennessee to Arizona, Florida to California. A lyrical, heartbreaking comedy of one family's dissolution through the corrosive powers of alcohol, sorrow, and thwarted desire, Firebird is also a wry evocation of childhood's pleasures and terrors, a comic tour of American suburban life, and a testament to the transformative power of art.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chris Hartmann, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030894
- Title
- Firebird: A Memoir
- Author
- Doty, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good DJ
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060193743
- ISBN 13
- 9780060193744
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Poets
Terms of Sale
Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
All books subject to prior sale, returns accepted within 10 days with notification, if not as described. Prices net to all. METHODS OF PAYMENT: Check with order, U.S. bank funds only. I can also accept deposit or credit card payment through PayPal.��NC residents add 6.75% sales tax. SHIPPING: USPS 4th Class Media Mail: $7.00 minimum, some heavy books more, each additional book $4.00. Priority Mail: $12.00 minimum, many books more, depending on weight and your postal zone; please ask for exact amount. FOR ALL NON-U.S. SHIPMENTS, INQUIRE FOR EXACT SHIPPING COSTS. Also inquire for Fedex, or other special handling.
About the Seller
Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
About Chris Hartmann, Bookseller
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.