Firebird A Memoir
by Doty, Mark
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0224060201
- ISBN 13
- 9780224060202
- Seller
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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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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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB225637
- Title
- Firebird A Memoir
- Author
- Doty, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0224060201
- ISBN 13
- 9780224060202
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
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- Biography;
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...