{"product_id":"firebird-a-memoir-isbn-9780060931971","title":"Firebird: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America.\"  — \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his powerful autobiography, \u003cem\u003eFirebird,\u003c\/em\u003e 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!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFirebird,\u003c\/em\u003e 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!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"With \u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e . . . Doty has written his most satisfying book . . . . [He] has elevated the story of his troubled family to the stature of myth, and in the process he has written an American classic.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poet's beautifully written, halucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Doty writes with the characteristic Zen-calm you find also in his gorgeous poetry.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A lyrical, heartfelt and ultimately haunting account. . . . It is a pleasure to read a memoir that eschews the outsized dramas of recent confessional volumes. . . .\u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e convincingly evokes the isolation and cruelty of childhood, the potent blend of torment and pride experienced by those who sense, from an early age, that they are different.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By the end of Mark Doty's exquisite memoir.\u003cem\u003e Firebird\u003c\/em\u003e, you'll have trouble believing you haven't read a brilliantly plotted novel by a master of fiction. But no made-up story could ever be as gripping as the one Doty tells, And few novelists could tell it this well.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By turns lyrically comic and deeply sad.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Supple, powerful reading. . . .[Doty] immerses his readers—at first in a leisurely manner, then with gathering intensity—in a gay coming of age complicated by complete family meltdown.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887422730469,"sku":"NP9780060931971","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060931971.jpg?v=1730226088","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/firebird-a-memoir-isbn-9780060931971","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}