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PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-100802123414
ISBN-139780802123411
eBay Product ID (ePID)201588342
Product Key Features
Book TitleH Is for Hawk
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWomen, Spirituality, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Animals / Birds
Publication Year2015
GenreFamily & Relationships, Nature, Religion, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorHelen Macdonald
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight16.5 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsA Bookseller and Waterstones Book of the Month "A dazzling piece of work: deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence . . . a deeply human work shot through, like cloth of gold, with intelligence and compassion—an exemplar of the mysterious alchemy by which suffering can be transmuted into beauty. I will be surprised if a better book than H is for Hawk is published this year." — Melissa Harrison, Financial Times "More than any other writer I know, including her beloved [T.H.] White, Macdonald is able to summon the mental world of a bird of prey . . . she extends the boundaries of nature writing. As a naturalist she has somehow acquired her bird's laser-like visual acuity. As a writer she combines a lexicographer's pleasure in words as carefully curated objects with an inventive passion for new words or for ways of releasing fresh effects from the old stock. . . . Macdonald looks set to revive the genre." — Mark Cocker, Guardian "What [Macdonald] has achieved is a very rare thing in literature—a completely realistic account of a human relationship with animal consciousness. . . . Her training of Mabel has the suspense and tension of the here and now. You are gripped by the slightest movement, by the turn of every feather. It is a soaring performance and Mabel is the star." — John Carey, Sunday Times "The magnificent H is for Hawk [has] grabbed me by its talons . . . [it's] nature writing, but not as you know it. Astounding." — Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller "It sings . I couldn't stop reading." — Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother "This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent." — Andrew Motion, author of In the Blood "A deep, dark work of terrible beauty that will open fissures in the stoniest heart. . . . Macdonald is a survivor . . . she has produced one of the most eloquent accounts of bereavement you could hope to read . . . A grief memoir with wings." — The Bookseller "A book made from the heart that goes to the heart . . . It combines old and new nature and human nature with great originality. No one who has looked up to see a bird of prey cross the sky could read it and not have their life shifted." — Tim Dee, author of The Running Sky "The most magical book I have ever read." — Olivia Laing, author of The Trip to Echo Springs, "Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk is delicious. Rich with the poetry of ideation, the narrative flows through the author's deeply textured story of personal loss like a mountain wind, swirling seamlessly through fields of literature, biology, natural history, and the art of hunting with hawks. Readers might do well to absorb this book a bite at a time—but be prepared for a full meal." — Lynn Schooler, author of The Blue Bear "A dazzling piece of work: deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence . . . a deeply human work shot through, like cloth of gold, with intelligence and compassion—an exemplar of the mysterious alchemy by which suffering can be transmuted into beauty. I will be surprised if a better book than H is for Hawk is published this year." — Melissa Harrison, Financial Times "More than any other writer I know, including her beloved [T.H.] White, Macdonald is able to summon the mental world of a bird of prey . . . she extends the boundaries of nature writing. As a naturalist she has somehow acquired her bird''s laser-like visual acuity. As a writer she combines a lexicographer''s pleasure in words as carefully curated objects with an inventive passion for new words or for ways of releasing fresh effects from the old stock. . . . Macdonald looks set to revive the genre." — Mark Cocker, Guardian "A talon-sharp memoir that will thrill and chill you to the bone . . . Macdonald has just the right blend of the scientist and the poet, of observing on the one hand and feeling on the other." — Craig Brown, Daily Mail "What [Macdonald] has achieved is a very rare thing in literature—a completely realistic account of a human relationship with animal consciousness. . . . Her training of Mabel has the suspense and tension of the here and now. You are gripped by the slightest movement, by the turn of every feather. It is a soaring performance and Mabel is the star." — John Carey, Sunday Times "A well-wrought book, one part memoir, one part gorgeous evocation of the natural world and one part literary meditation . . . lit with flashes of grace, a grace that sweeps down to the reader to hold her wrist tight with beautiful, terrible claws. The discovery of the season." — Erica Wagner, Economist "The magnificent H is for Hawk [has] grabbed me by its talons . . . [it's] nature writing, but not as you know it. Astounding." — Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller "It sings . I couldn't stop reading." — Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother "This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent." — Andrew Motion, author of In the Blood "A deep, dark work of terrible beauty that will open fissures in the stoniest heart. . . . Macdonald is a survivor . . . she has produced one of the most eloquent accounts of bereavement you could hope to read . . . A grief memoir with wings." — The Bookseller "A book made from the heart that goes to the heart . . . It combines old and new nature and human nature with great originality. No one who has looked up to see a bird of prey cross the sky could read it and not have their life shifted." — Tim Dee, author of The Running Sky "The most magical book I have ever read." — Olivia Laing, author of The Trip to Echo Springs, A Bookseller and Waterstones Book of the Month "A dazzling piece of work: deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence . . . a deeply human work shot through, like cloth of gold, with intelligence and compassion—an exemplar of the mysterious alchemy by which suffering can be transmuted into beauty. I will be surprised if a better book than H is for Hawk is published this year." — Melissa Harrison, Financial Times "More than any other writer I know, including her beloved [T.H.] White, Macdonald is able to summon the mental world of a bird of prey . . . she extends the boundaries of nature writing. As a naturalist she has somehow acquired her bird's laser-like visual acuity. As a writer she combines a lexicographer's pleasure in words as carefully curated objects with an inventive passion for new words or for ways of releasing fresh effects from the old stock. . . . Macdonald looks set to revive the genre." — Mark Cocker, Guardian "A talon-sharp memoir that will thrill and chill you to the bone . . . Macdonald has just the right blend of the scientist and the poet, of observing on the one hand and feeling on the other." — Craig Brown, Daily Mail "What [Macdonald] has achieved is a very rare thing in literature—a completely realistic account of a human relationship with animal consciousness. . . . Her training of Mabel has the suspense and tension of the here and now. You are gripped by the slightest movement, by the turn of every feather. It is a soaring performance and Mabel is the star." — John Carey, Sunday Times "A well-wrought book, one part memoir, one part gorgeous evocation of the natural world and one part literary meditation . . . lit with flashes of grace, a grace that sweeps down to the reader to hold her wrist tight with beautiful, terrible claws. The discovery of the season." — Erica Wagner, Economist "The magnificent H is for Hawk [has] grabbed me by its talons . . . [it's] nature writing, but not as you know it. Astounding." — Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller "It sings . I couldn't stop reading." — Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother "This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent." — Andrew Motion, author of In the Blood "A deep, dark work of terrible beauty that will open fissures in the stoniest heart. . . . Macdonald is a survivor . . . she has produced one of the most eloquent accounts of bereavement you could hope to read . . . A grief memoir with wings." — The Bookseller "A book made from the heart that goes to the heart . . . It combines old and new nature and human nature with great originality. No one who has looked up to see a bird of prey cross the sky could read it and not have their life shifted." — Tim Dee, author of The Running Sky "The most magical book I have ever read." — Olivia Laing, author of The Trip to Echo Springs, A Bookseller and Waterstones Book of the Month "The magnificent H is for Hawk [has] grabbed me by its talons . . . [it's] nature writing, but not as you know it. Astounding." — Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller "It sings . I couldn't stop reading." — Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother "This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent." — Andrew Motion, author of In the Blood "A deep, dark work of terrible beauty that will open fissures in the stoniest heart. . . . Macdonald is a survivor . . . she has produced one of the most eloquent accounts of bereavement you could hope to read . . . A grief memoir with wings." — The Bookseller "A book made from the heart that goes to the heart . . . It combines old and new nature and human nature with great originality. No one who has looked up to see a bird of prey cross the sky could read it and not have their life shifted." — Tim Dee, author of The Running Sky "The most magical book I have ever read." — Olivia Laing, author of The Trip to Echo Springs
Dewey Decimal598.944
SynopsisOne of the New York Times 's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of Kirkus Reviews 's Best Books of the 21st Century One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices., One of the New York Times Book Review 's 10 Best Books of the Year One of Slate 's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" ( People ). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.
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- 10. Mär. 2016
H is also for the Humanity of Helen Macdonald
While many bird-loving people highly recommended this book, I was told by a couple of birder friends that this was a "painful read" and hard to stay with. I bought this book in spite of those comments because of a thoughtful and heartfelt blog written by Maria Popova about it, the author and T.H. White. I was intrigued and I wanted to read it for myself and come to my own conclusions and final opinion. I HIGHLY recommend this book for anyone - you don't need to be a birder, or a falconing enthusiast, or someone who has or hasn't read "The Once and Future King" or any of T.H. White's books. This is the true, sometimes painful, often jubilant story of a woman finding her way out of deep intense grief at the loss of her beloved father and back into her life. Her physical companion: the hawk, her mental companion: the life and writings of T.H. White (and the story of his falconing attempts with his hawk. This is one of those rare reads that somehow make you feel stronger because it opens your heart again and again. I have thought of it often since I read it, and always the feeling with which I'm left is gratitude to be sharing my life with a person like this author, Helen Macdonald, and because of her writing, a great renewed joy in being alive.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 03. Aug. 2021
Beautiful prose for gift giving
Beautiful prose. Extraordinary life lessons. This book moves to the top of my gift giving list.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Mär. 2021
Great
Quality book. Good readBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 29. Mär. 2018
good reading,well written
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- 02. Sep. 2020
Worth Reading
? Yes this is a good well written novelBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Nov. 2017
Nice book.
Book is in like new condition.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 19. Mai. 2020
Good
InterestingBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 07. Jun. 2021
good value
ok bookBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
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