![]() ![]() Read Lambda Literary‘s interview with Abbott here. McNairy stars as Steve Abbott, a writer and widower who packs up his battered red Volkswagen bug and moves his young daughter Alysia (Nessa Dougherty) to San Francisco in the 1970s after the. “I think it will make an engaging and touching movie on a subject I’ve never seen before.” “I love the book Fairyland it’s a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad, both growing up together in 1970′s San Francisco,” Coppola said. I wanted him to shape me with his love and intelligence. ![]() ![]() I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined work of art. The book is a coming of age story set against San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and ’80s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott’s father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist. Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott 3,443 ratings, 4.00 average rating, 504 reviews Open Preview Fairyland Quotes Showing 1-9 of 9 The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. Sofia Coppola is Planning ‘Fairyland’ Film Adaptationĭirector Sofia Coppola ( Bling Ring, The Virgin Suicides) is adapting Alysia Abbott’s memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father for the screen.Īmerican Zoetrope has acquired screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, with Sofia Coppola set to adapt it with Andrew Durham. ![]()
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