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Title	:	Birdy
Author	:	William Wharton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	February 4th 1992 by Vintage (first published December 12th 1978)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. War. Literature. American. Novels

Birdy

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)

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It is a long time ago that I saw this movie and bizarrely I've never seen it again on tv or as a dvd so when I picked this up in a charity shop I was pleased that the book was as rewarding as i remember the film had been. At its heart this is a brilliant evocation of frienship and the appalling destruction that the experience of war has upon the individual. Al and birdy are polar opposites at school, one a star of the sporting arena, popular with an eye on girls and a good time but with a brutal

This is one of my favorite books ever! Back in the day when I read it I both cried and laughed all throughout the book. I need to find time and read it again!

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.

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.

A good friend lent it to me, saying it was his favourite book. I gave it five stars because the structure is so original, the voice pitch perfect...he pulls off something that i would never imagine possible, it is brave, fascinating, funny. The best parts are where Birdy is trying to distinguish between his daytime life and his nighttime dream, between being a boy or a bird, it is delicious, the blending of reality and dream, you start to believe the dream more than the reality, to want him to

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.

I've been making room for re-reading this year and selected William Wharton's Birdy because of the deep resonance it had for me as a young man. It must have been 30 years ago that I first read this novel and reading this deeply introspective story now, as an adult, I found myself spending as much time wondering how much of this deeply atmospheric and introspective novel seeped into me as a young man about to fly away to college and away from my whole life for the first time. Wharton's dream