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Firebird: A Memoir
by Doty, Mark
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/Not Applicable
- ISBN 10
- 0224060201
- ISBN 13
- 9780224060202
- Seller
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Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
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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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- Bookseller
- Reading Habit
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIOUSA130
- Title
- Firebird: A Memoir
- Author
- Doty, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Applicable
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224060201
- ISBN 13
- 9780224060202
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR, HOMOSEXUALITY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Self Help;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- First Edition
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