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Author Abbott, Alysia.

Title Fairyland : a memoir of my father / Alysia Abbott.

Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B ABBOTT, ALYSIA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  306.8742 ABB    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 ABBOTT, ALY    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG ABBOTT, ALYSIA    DUE 05-18-24
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-ABBOTT, S.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-322).
Contents Fairytales -- Motherless -- Borrowed mothers -- The quake -- Departures -- Return.
Summary "A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and '80s San Francisco with an openly gay father."--Amazon.
Describes the author's 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.
Subject Abbott, Alysia -- Family.
Abbott, Steve, 1943-1992.
Gay fathers -- Biography.
Gay men -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography.
ISBN 9780393082524 hardback
0393082520 hardback
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