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Take this man : a memoir
- Title
- Take this man : a memoir / Brando Skyhorse.
- Author
- Skyhorse, Brando.
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-5250 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 258 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle or The Tender Bar, the true story of a boy's turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth. When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one. The life of 'Brando Skyhorse,' the American Indian son of an incarcerated political activist, was about to begin. Through a series of letters to Paul Skyhorse Johnson, a stranger in prison for armed robbery, Maria reinvents herself and her young son as American Indians in the colorful Mexican-American neighborhood of Echo Park, California. There Brando and his mother live with his acerbic grandmother and a rotating cast of surrogate fathers. It will be over thirty years before Brando begins to untangle the truth of his own past, when a surprise discovery online leads him to his biological father at last. From an acclaimed, prize-winning novelist celebrated for his 'indelible storytelling' (O, The Oprah Magazine), this extraordinary literary memoir captures a son's single-minded search for a father wherever he can find one, and is destined to become a classic"--
- Subjects
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Biography
- Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > Biography
- Authors, American > 21st century > Family relationships
- Mothers and sons > United States
- Identity (Psychology) > United States
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Biography
- Authors, American > 21st century > Biography
- Skyhorse, Brando > Family
- Fathers and sons > United States
- Skyhorse, Brando > Childhood and youth
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- Call Number
- JFE 14-5250
- ISBN
- 9781439170878
- 1439170878
- LCCN
- 2013047740
- OCLC
- 2013047740
- Author
- Skyhorse, Brando.
- Title
- Take this man : a memoir / Brando Skyhorse.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-5250