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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 211x140x25 mm, kaal: 350 g, 10 illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2014
  • Kirjastus: WW Norton & Co
  • ISBN-10: 0393348903
  • ISBN-13: 9780393348903
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 211x140x25 mm, kaal: 350 g, 10 illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2014
  • Kirjastus: WW Norton & Co
  • ISBN-10: 0393348903
  • ISBN-13: 9780393348903
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A woman describes her life being raised by her widowed, bi-sexual father in the liberating cultural mecca of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s and how AIDS began claiming the lives of their friends and eventually her father. 13,000 first printing.

The author describes being raised by her widowed, bi-sexual father in the liberating cultural mecca of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s and how AIDS began claiming the lives of their friends and eventually her father.

A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.

With a new forewordAfter his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom are raising a child.Steve throws himself into San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene. He takes Alysia to raucous parties, pushes her in front of the microphone at poetry readings, and introduces her to a world of artists, thinkers, and writers. But the pair live like nomads, moving from apartment to apartment, with a revolving cast of roommates and little structure. As a child Alysia views her father as a loving playmate who can transform the ordinary into magic, but as she gets older Alysia wants more than anything to fit in. The world, she learns, is hostile to difference.In Alysia’s teens, Steve’s friends—several of whom she has befriended—fall ill as AIDS starts its rampage through their community. While Alysia is studying in New York and then in France, her father tells her it’s time to come home; he’s sick with AIDS. Alysia must choose whether to take on the responsibility of caring for her father or continue the independent life she has worked so hard to create.Reconstructing their life together from a remarkable cache of her father’s journals, letters, and writings, Alysia Abbott gives us an unforgettable portrait of a tumultuous, historic time in San Francisco as well as an exquisitely moving account of a father’s legacy and a daughter’s love.

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"Im so glad you wrote this book." -- Terry Gross - NPR's Fresh Air "Compassionate, cleareyed." -- Alexandra Styron - New York Times Book Review "More than the story of just one person; [ Fairyland] also open[ s] a window on an entire society." -- Leigh Newman - O, The Oprah Magazine "I love the book Fairyland; its a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad." -- Sofia Coppola "Doubles as a portrait of a city and a community at a crucial point in historyfunny, strange, and sweet." -- The New Yorker "Alysia beautifully remembers the innocence of the age between the disappearance of the Beats and the onset of AIDS." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Generous, precise, and deeply moving, Fairyland is a love story that not only brings a new generational perspective to a history were in danger of forgetting, but irrevocably shifts the way we think about family itself." -- Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother? "GorgeousAs a chronicle of the moment when the San Francisco of Armistad Maupin became the city of Harvey Milk, when gay and experimental poetry flourished in California, Fairyland is vivid and indelible. As the portrait of a conspiracy of love between a father and a daughter, it is heartrending, a brilliant addition to the literature of American memoir." -- Honor Moore, Author of Our Revolution "A beautiful, haunting book that instructs, even as it breaks our hearts." -- Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A Memoir "Clear-eyed and heartrending, Fairyland captures a singular time and place in American history. It also captures something much more important: what it means to be truly lovedand to love truly. A beautiful book." -- Andrew McCarthy, author of The Longest Way Home "As she depicts the dynamics of a unique, occasionally fraught, gay parentstraight child relationship, Abbott offers unforgettable glimpses into a community that has since left an indelible mark on both the literary and social histories of one of Americas most colorful cities. A sympathetic and deeply moving story." -- Kirkus Reviews "Fairyland, the 2013 memoir by Alysia Abbott, may be the first such [ AIDS] story that kicks off from the point of view of a little girl. . . . Moving." -- The New York Times

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Short-listed for Lambda Literary Award 2013.
Alysia Abbott's work has appeared in Real Simple, Salon, and TheAtlantic.com. She is a graduate of the New School's MFA program and was a contributing producer at WNYC radio. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her family.