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Birdy
Format:
Book
Title:
Birdy
ISBN:
9780394425696
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
Physical Description:
309 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
An inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness." Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale--one that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane. Birdy is obsessed with birds beginning with pigeons and moving onto canaries, until finally his only friend, a tough Sicilian, has to go to a Veteran's hospital to coax him back from an organized madness in which he had become a bird.
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