Author: William Wharton
Year: 1978
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Classic, War/Military, Award winners
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9780679734123
0679734120 |
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Hailed upon its publication as "a classic for readers not yet born" (
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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
, William Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane.
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