{"product_id":"firebird-mark-doty-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Doty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0060931973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060931971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.42w x 0.57d","brand":"Mark Doty","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995477475583,"sku":"9780060931971","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3f9a4d7a-1f64-4a8a-845e-31d3e7d00bca.jpg?v=1683336038","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/firebird-mark-doty-9780060931971","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}