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Sofia Coppola To Co-Write Coming Of Age Drama Fairyland

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:29:47 -0600

Sofia Coppola and first time scribe Andrew Durham will co-write an adaptation of Alysia Abbott's memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, according to Deadline.

The coming-of-age story follows Abbott and her artistic nomad of a father, who introduces her from a young age to the art and cultural scene of 1970s San Francisco, only to watch various friends fall victim to the AIDs epidemic spreading throughout the city, and then becoming sick himself.

It certainly sounds like a tale right up Coppola's youth-driven alley, and while she's not signed on to direct it yet, it's probably only a matter of time.

Here's the official synopsis of Abbott's memoir:

After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves in with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom are raising a child.

Steve throws himself into San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene. He takes Alysia to raucous parties, pushes her in front of the microphone at poetry readings, and introduces her to a world of artists, thinkers, and writers. But the pair live like nomads, moving from apartment to apartment, with a revolving cast of roommates and little structure. As a child Alysia views her father as a loving playmate who can transform the ordinary into magic, but as she gets older Alysia wants more than anything to fit in. The world, she learns, is hostile to difference.

In Alysia's teens, Steve's friends—several of whom she has befriended—fall ill as AIDS starts its rampage through their community. While Alysia is studying in New York and then in France, her father tells her it's time to come home; he's sick with AIDS. Alysia must choose whether to take on the responsibility of caring for her father or continue the independent life she has worked so hard to create.

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