Ebook {Epub PDF} Birdy by William Wharton

 · BIRDY WILLIAM WHARTON PDF - Hailed upon its publication as "a classic for readers not yet born" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Birdy is an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship.  · 'Birdy' was author William Wharton's first novel, written at age It is a story of two boys growing up in a poor suburb of Philadelphia who have one of those puzzling friendships, due to the boys' different natures, that somehow works. Birdy is a gifted youth obsessed with birds and flying and raises pigeons and canaries.4/5. Wharton achieves this brilliantly, using Al's persuasion of Birdy and alternating that with Birdy's own internal dialogue, revealing 2 damaged young men facing some scary truths about the world and themselves. Wharton's attention to detail about the pigeons and then the canaries that earned Birdy his nickname is just astonishing/5(68).

Birdy - William Wharton audio book torrent free download, Shared by:dittle68 Written by William Wharton Read by Jim Colby, James Yaegashi Format: MP3 Unabridged Growing up, Birdy dreams of flying like the canaries he fastidiously studies, and he shares these fantasies with his best. I have always lived in three states of time - the past, the future, and the dream. The past I use for recreational purposes - when I want to cry I think of all sorrows and disappointments; when I want to smile I cherish all those moments when I acted out of myself. In Birdy, William Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane.

William Wharton, pseudonym of Albert William du Aime, (Nov. 7, Oct. 29, ) American novelist and painter best known for his innovative first novel, Birdy, a critical and popular success. It was not until later in life that Wharton attempted to publish any of his writing. Wharton sets this all up in a poignant frame: pal Al visits Birdy in an Army mental hospital just after the war, and in his locked room Birdy hops around, hauling up in his memory the entire change from boy to bird into man. Sounds improbable, we grant you—even a little off the wall. But this is an amazing work of real art. Birdy - William Wharton () Soldat Al, schwer verwundet im 2. Weltkrieg, soll seinem Jugendfreund aus einem lebensbedrohlichen Zustand helfen. Birdy hockt traumatisiert, abwesend und stumm in der Psychiatrie und lässt sich nur mit Körnern füttern. Al erinnert sich, dass Birdy früher von Vögeln fasziniert war.