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| Title | : | Birdy |
| Author | : | William Wharton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | February 4th 1992 by Vintage (first published December 12th 1978) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. War. Literature. American. Novels |
William Wharton
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 4.04 | 5633 Users | 222 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | Birdy |
| ISBN: | 0679734120 (ISBN13: 9780679734123) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Birdy, Al |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1980), National Book Award for First Novel (1980) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Birdy
Ratings: 4.04 From 5633 Users | 222 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books Birdy
Who hasnt at one time wanted to fly? When I was a kid I longed to be a seagull, soaring over the waves, riding the onshore uplift, sweeping over the shore. Birdy wants to be more, not only to fly, but to become a bird. His best friend Al wants to become a tough guy, to fend off his fathers physical abuse. Birdy raises canaries, not for their song but for their flight. Along the way we learn an awful lot about canaries, but it never seems like a lecture. Its just what Birdy is passionate about.The story is that of two men who have known each other since childhood, both of whom are locked up in a military hospital. The book goes back and forth between present day and the past. The past mostly involved one of the boy's obsession with breeding canaries and learning how to fly. This is the kind of book with a plot I don't even want to discuss because if you knew what it was about you'd likely have no interest in it. 10 pages of detailed descriptions of tending to canary breeding? It
I really wanted more of a story of friendship and less of an ornithology textbook.Every time Al would narrate a chapter, I would be riveted. I really enjoyed his memories of friendship with Birdy and the horrors of his service in WWII. But then it would switch off to one of Birdys chapters, and my eyes would start to glaze over. I could probably raise a flock of canaries myself, due to the amount of detail that Wharton went into about their needs and habits. It quickly got repetitive and dull.
As a teenager I read and reread this book for Birdy's introspective inner life, and Al felt like a little more than a macho clown. Now that I revisited the book as an adult, I found a lot in Al to think about, while Birdy dropped to the background. There was also a lot more about friendship than I remember. I wouldn't say it will remain as one of my favorites, but it was a formative one in my youth, and I'm glad I revisited it.
Between my teens and my early twenties I'd pick my friends, according to weather they loved this book or not. Maybe I should start doing it again these days.
I begin to wonder what men do that's the same as a canary singing. It's probably thinking. We built this cage, civilization, because we could think and now we have to think because we are in the cage. I'm sure there's a real world still there if I can get out of the cage.
I really wanted more of a story of friendship and less of an ornithology textbook.Every time Al would narrate a chapter, I would be riveted. I really enjoyed his memories of friendship with Birdy and the horrors of his service in WWII. But then it would switch off to one of Birdys chapters, and my eyes would start to glaze over. I could probably raise a flock of canaries myself, due to the amount of detail that Wharton went into about their needs and habits. It quickly got repetitive and dull.
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