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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Mark Doty; Mark Doty |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Doty |
| ISBN: | 0060193743 9780060193744 |
| OCLC Number: | 41278358 |
| Description: | 200 p. : port. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Prelude: Perspective Box -- Rainbow Girls -- A Book of Archaeology -- Beast from the Year 5000 -- Mikey -- Firebird -- Seventy-six Trombones -- Guest from Nowhere -- Valley of the Moon -- Samson in the Temple -- Wear Your Love Like Heaven -- Sorrowful Mother -- Fanfare and Finale: Firebird. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Doty. |
Abstract:
"A heartbreaking comedy of one family's dissolution through the corrosive powers of alcohol, sorrow, and thwarted desire ... [and] a wry evocation of childhood's pleasure and terrors, and a comic tour of suburban American life in the fifties and sixties."--Jacket.
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- Doty, Mark -- Childhood and youth.
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