Firebird: A Memoir - Softcover

Doty, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060931973 ISBN 13: 9780060931971

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2013

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2000-09-19 Pages: 228 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US 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 Garlands Get Happy by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door. exclaiming. Son. youre 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 fathers engineering work across America-from Tennessee to Arizona. Florida to California. A lyrical. heartbreaking comedy of one familys dissolution through the corrosive powers of alcohol . sorrow. and thwarted desire. Firebird is also a wry evocation of childhoods pleasures and terrors. a comic tour of Ameri...

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Review:

"By the end of Mark Doty's exquisite memoir. "Firebird, " you'll have troublebelieving you haven't read a brilliantly plotted novel by a master offiction. But no made-up story could ever be as gripping as theone Doty tells, And few novelists could tell it this well."-- "San Francisco Chronicle""Supple powerful reading . . . Doty immerses his readers in a gay coming-of-age complicated family meltdown." -- "New York Times Book Review""A beautifully written. hallucinatorily evocative memoir Of growing up gay in baby-boom America."-- "Newsweek""Doty writes with the characteristic Zen calm you find also in his gorgeous poetry."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review""A lyrical, heartfelt, and ultimately haunting account of his early years."--"Washington Post Book Review""His luminous portrait of the artist as a young man also illuminates the currents of his times, and contains a haunting family history."--"Booklist "(starred review)"An American classic....Doty's writing surpasses anything he's ever attempted before and achieves a depth and a clear-eyed splendor that left me bereft and exalted at the same time."--"Salon""By turns lyrically comic and deeply sad."--"Out "magazine"Incandescent....A lasting work of art."--"Time Out"

Book Description:

A brilliant, bittersweet memoir of growing up gay by the prize-winning poet

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0060931973
• ISBN 13: 9780060931971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230