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Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-101501198513
ISBN-139781501198519
eBay Product ID (ePID)11050375247
Product Key Features
Book TitleFeatherhood : a Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Literary, Animals / General, Animals / Birds
GenreNature, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorCharlie Gilmour
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight10.3 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-012156
Reviews"Thoughtful ... [an] intimate, entertaining story ... the book soars ... Featherhood is an incisive, funny and at times traumatic study of the damage done by destructive father-son relationships and the struggle to smash generational cycles." --Evening Standard "A profound exploration of grief, fragmented families, nature versus nurture and whether we are doomed to repeat the sins of our fathers. But it is also a gladdening celebration of what it is to nurture and bring forth new life." --Sunday Express
SynopsisIn this "vivid...lovely and inviting" ( The New York Times ) coming-of-age memoir--the "best piece of nature writing since H Is for Hawk " (Neil Gaiman)--a young man saves a baby magpie as his estranged father is dying, only to find that caring for the bird saves him. This is a story of two men who could talk to birds--but were completely incapable of talking to each other. A father who fled from his family in the dead of night, and the jackdaw he raised like a child. A son obsessed with his absence--and the young magpie that fell into his path and refused to fly away. This is a story about the crow family and human family; about repetition across generations and birds that run in the blood; about a terror of repeating the sins of the father and a desire to build a nest of one's own.
LC Classification NumberQL795.B57G55 2021
