Description
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.
Author: Mark Doty
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/19/2000
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.42w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780060931971
ISBN10: 0060931973
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | LGBTQ+
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
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