Harper Perennial, September 2000. Unknown. Used - Like New (No Trade). Like new condition. May show extremely minor signs of shelf wear. May have a remainder mark on the outside bottom edge of the pages.

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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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Bookseller: The Book Worm Bookstore, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 242837
Title: Firebird: A Memoir
Author: Mark Doty
Format/Binding: Unknown
Book Condition: New
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0060931973
ISBN 13: 9780060931971
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: September 2000
Pages: 224

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