Firebird : A Memoir
by MARK DOTY
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060931973
- ISBN 13
- 9780060931971
- Seller
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Champaign, Illinois, United States
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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
- Jane Addams Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 273679
- Title
- Firebird : A Memoir
- Author
- MARK DOTY
- Format/Binding
- Trade
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060931973
- ISBN 13
- 9780060931971
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 2000
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