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Author:

Skyhorse, Brando.

Title:

Take this man : a memoir / Brando Skyhorse.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

258 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Skyhorse, Brando--Childhood and youth.
Skyhorse, Brando--Family.
Authors, American--21st century--Biography.
Authors, American--21st century--Family relationships.
Mothers and sons--United States.
Fathers and sons--United States.
Identity (Psychology)--United States.
Mexican Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Biography.
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biography.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family.

Summary:

"From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this ... 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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1439170878 (hbk.)
9781439170878 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)876368008

LCCN:

2013047740

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

NNPA983 -- Fertile Public Library (Fertile)

MYPC943 -- Gowrie Public Library (Gowrie)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

BUPB851 -- Maxwell Public Library (Maxwell)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

XEPE697 -- Red Oak Public Library (Red Oak)

DIPB173 -- Ventura Public Library (Ventura)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)