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Format:
Book
Title:
Firebird : a memoir
ISBN:
9780060193744

9780060931971
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : HarperCollins, [1999]
Physical Description:
200 pages : portrait ; 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.
Summary:
"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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