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Birdy - William Wharton

 

Description: ISBN 0099428245 / Author: William Wharton / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... he needed. And as Al watches him in his hospital cell he recalls those childhood days and talks of them for hours which blend ... more

 ... into days which blend into weeks. Wharton tells the story by a double n arrative; by Al's words and by Birdy's thoughts and he tells it in two timeframes; in flashbacks to those childhood remembrances and in the pain and confusion of the present. Al's narrative is crude and colloquial yet searingly honest, and also touchingly so. Birdy's words are dreamlike and poetic; they seem born from nature itself, from instinct, from...more

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Format: hardback, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN: 04159397
Pages: 286, Hardcover, Routledge, Inc - Books/Subjects/Poetry, Dr ...
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Crowned Review Birdy - William Wharton: Locked In Gravity Graves (1327 words)
by jillmurphy - written on 28.06.01 (Very useful, 319 readings)
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His shattered face swathed in bandages from a series of reconstructive surgeries, Al Columbato leaves one military hospital for another, this time not for treatment, but to help a childhood friend. When he arrives even Al, well used to Birdy's strangeness, is shocked at his condition. Birdy is in a secure mental unit in a catatonic state, crouched upon the floor unmoving, unable even to feed himself. It is Al's task, given to him by the hospital psychiatrist Dr Weiss, to talk to Birdy, to try to rouse him from his stupor. The two boys have been friends for years, the closest friends imaginable. But war separated them and now that it is over they are together ...

 
 
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