Firebird (Uncorrected Proof); A Memoir
by Doty, Mark
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Avon, Connecticut, 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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- Seller
- Derringer Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 16398
- Title
- Firebird (Uncorrected Proof); A Memoir
- Author
- Doty, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Poetry, Memoir
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry Books;
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