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Attracted not to baseball gloves or space travel but to textiles, opera and free-form dance, Mark Doty discovered that his dawning sexuality was "The Wrong One". By the end of this memoir he has undergone a triumphant transformation as a gay man emerging, radiant and new, from his own ashes.
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"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"
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A brilliant, bittersweet memoir of growing up gay by the prize-winning poet
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0224060201
- ISBN 13 9780224060202
- BindingPaperback
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- Number of pages224
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