The Resource Take this man : a memoir, Brando Skyhorse
Take this man : a memoir, Brando Skyhorse
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The item Take this man : a memoir, Brando Skyhorse represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Newburyport Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439170878
- Label
- Take this man : a memoir
- Title
- Take this man
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Brando Skyhorse
- Subject
-
- Authors, American -- 21st century -- Family relationships
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Biography
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family
- Fathers and sons -- United States
- Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography
- Mexican Americans -- California | Los Angeles -- Biography
- Mothers and sons -- United States
- Skyhorse, Brando -- Childhood and youth
- Skyhorse, Brando -- Family
- Identity (Psychology) -- United States
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Skyhorse, Brando
- Dewey number
-
- 818/.603
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3619.K947
- LC item number
- Z468 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Skyhorse, Brando
- Skyhorse, Brando
- Authors, American
- Authors, American
- Mothers and sons
- Fathers and sons
- Identity (Psychology)
- Mexican Americans
- Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family
- Label
- Take this man : a memoir, Brando Skyhorse
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1551413
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439170878
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013047740
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1551413
- (OCoLC)876368008
- Label
- Take this man : a memoir, Brando Skyhorse
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1551413
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439170878
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013047740
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1551413
- (OCoLC)876368008
Subject
- Authors, American -- 21st century -- Family relationships
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Biography
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family
- Fathers and sons -- United States
- Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography
- Mexican Americans -- California | Los Angeles -- Biography
- Mothers and sons -- United States
- Skyhorse, Brando -- Childhood and youth
- Skyhorse, Brando -- Family
- Identity (Psychology) -- United States
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