Firebird - by Mark Doty (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In his autobiography, poet Mark Doty tells the story of how he became aware of his sexual orientation at the age of ten, and of one family's dissolution through the corrosive powers of alcohol, sorrow, and thwarted desire.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America. -- <em>Newsweek</em></strong></p><p>In his powerful autobiography, <em>Firebird, </em> 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!</p><p><em>Firebird</em> 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, <em>Firebird</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>In <em>Firebird, </em> 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!</p><p><em>Firebird</em> 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, <em>Firebird</em> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Doty's] luminous portrait of the artist as a young man also illuminates the currents of his times, and contains a haunting family history. This is memoir at its best.--<strong><em>Booklist</em>, starred review</strong><br><br>A lyrical, heartfelt and ultimately haunting account. . . . It is a pleasure to read a memoir that eschews the outsized dramas of recent confessional volumes. . . .<em>Firebird</em> 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.--<strong><em>Washington Post Book World</em></strong><br><br>By the end of Mark Doty's exquisite memoir.<em> Firebird</em>, 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.--<strong><em>San Francisco Chronicle</em></strong><br><br>By turns lyrically comic and deeply sad.--<strong><em>Out Magazine</em></strong><br><br>Doty writes with the characteristic Zen-calm you find also in his gorgeous poetry.--<strong><em>Los Angeles Times Book Review</em></strong><br><br>Incandescent. . . .a lasting work of art.--<strong><em>Time Out</em></strong><br><br>It is not so much Doty's experiences that elevate <em>Firebird</em>. It is the extraordinary lilt of his words, each chosen with great care, which make even ordinary moments. . . become fresh and indelible.--<strong><em>Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel</em></strong><br><br>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.--<strong><em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br><br>The poet's beautifully written, halucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America.--<strong><em>Newsweek</em></strong><br><br>Vivid, exquisite. . . . Some memoirists attempt to reinhabit their childhood minds, with wildly varying results. . . .Doty does not. He is always the narrator walking through his own life, the man gazing upon the child. This method allows Doty to observes himself, sometimes with devastating scrutiny. It imbues this book with greater honesty and makes his observations--such as remembering himself as a heavy little sissy in glasses--all the more poignant.--<strong><em>Boston Globe</em></strong><br><br>With <em>Firebird</em> . . . 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.--<strong><em>Salon</em></strong><br>
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