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Firebird: A Memoir

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark DotyPublish date:2013-12-13Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060931971ISBN-10:60931973UPC:9780060931971Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:8.06 x 5.42 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCQ8PKFAVX

"A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America." -- Newsweek

In his powerful autobiography, 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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060931971ISBN-10:60931973UPC:9780060931971Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:8.06 x 5.42 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCQ8PKFAVX
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Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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