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Firebird: A Memoir

Firebird: A Memoir

Firebird: A Memoir
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Firebird: A Memoir

by Doty, Mark

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  • Paperback
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ISBN 10
0060931973
ISBN 13
9780060931971
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New York: Harper Perennial, 2000. Light edgewear and a bit of a curl, otherwise a fine clean sturdy copy. From the back cover:"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.". Soft Cover. Very Good.

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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
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Firebird: A Memoir
Author
Doty, Mark
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
ISBN 10
0060931973
ISBN 13
9780060931971
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2000
Keywords
Gay Homosexuality
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