| Birdy Contributor(s): Wharton, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679734120 ISBN-13: 9780679734123 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1992 Annotation: An inventive, hypnotic novel about frienship 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91050020 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.32" W x 8.06" (0.76 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hailed upon its publication as "a classic for readers not yet born" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Birdy is an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, dreaming and surviving, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness." It tells the story of Al, a bold, hot-tempered boy whose goals in life are to life weights and pick up girls, and his strange friend Birdy, the skinny, tongue-tied perhaps genius who only wants to raise canaries and to fly. While fighting in World War II, they find their dreams become all too real--and their lives are changed forever. In Birdy, William Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane. |