Firebird A Memoir

Name: Firebird A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780060931971

ISBN-10: 0060931973

ISBN-13: 9780060931971

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mark Doty

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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,…

Book details

List price: $13.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Prelude: Perspective Box





Rainbow Girls


A Book of Archaeology


Beast from the Year 5000


Mikey


Firebird


Seventy-six Trombones





Guest from Nowhere


Valley of the Moon


Samson in the Temple


Wear Your Love Like Heaven


Sorrowful Mother


Fanfare and Finale: Firebird


Acknowledgments