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Title	:	Birdy
Author	:	William Wharton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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Ratings: 4.04 From 5633 Users | 222 Reviews

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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.

What a book. It forces you to think about some interesting questions. Who is really crazy? Am I crazy for trying to mold the world into my perception of "normal"? Are crazy people really sane and just using insanity as a protection for their "humaness". We are de-humanized every day. Scary. Makes you want to fly away--or at least buy a canary.

This book was another recommendation I picked up way back from Dirk Bogarde and our reading adventures together. Thanks again to Brighton and Hove Libraries, and for our many sunny days together. I can see how the war scenes at the end would have piqued your interest for the feeling of it or for a character, for the research, for the fear. Like Birdy, I too thought as a child I could die if I just stopped trying to live. Lots in here to behold for the only child.

In my teens William Wharton was very popular in Poland. I believe its all started with Birdy. At least for me. I read then quite a number of his novels and even though I didnt think much of him for years but only for Birdy and A Midnight Clear, and maybe Dad he had and still has a very special place in my heart. Not sure what prompted me to reread that one but here I was, with a flush on my cheeks, like a teenager I used to be, once again fascinated and totally preoccupied with the story.You

Birdy is a weird little novel which feels like something one would be forced to read in junior high or freshman year English class. Thats not to say its bad, though parts of it actually read a bit like an after school special (only if that after school special were on HBO).The novel follows two disparate teenage boys who are close friends despite their stark differences. One is a jock/muscle-man and the other dreams of being a bird and living in a bird world. We follow them on their adventures



Between my teens and my early twenties I'd pick my friends, according to weather they loved this book or not. Maybe I should start doing it again these days.