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Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel, Max Porter

Label
Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel
Title
Grief is the thing with feathers
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Max Porter
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar - a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons, who, like him, struggle in their London flat to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and baby-sitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent. --
Assigning source
From book flap
Cataloging source
YDXCP
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Porter, Max
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Grief
  • Bereavement
  • Motherless families
  • Mothers
  • Fathers and sons
  • Widowers
  • London (England)
  • Motherless families
  • Fathers and sons
  • Chagrin
  • Deuil
  • Familles sans mère
  • Pères et fils
  • Veufs
  • Bereavement
  • Fathers and sons
  • Grief
  • Motherless families
  • Mothers
  • Widowers
  • England
  • Bereavement
  • Family life
  • Father-son relationship
  • Grief
  • Widowers
  • London (England)
Label
Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel, Max Porter
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
"First published in 2015 by Faber & Faber Ltd., London"--Title page verso
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
918995181
Dimensions
19 cm
Extent
114 pages
Isbn
9780606393607
Lccn
2015953714
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
Other control number
99964906657
System control number
(OCoLC)918995181
Label
Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel, Max Porter
Publication
Copyright
Note
"First published in 2015 by Faber & Faber Ltd., London"--Title page verso
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
918995181
Dimensions
19 cm
Extent
114 pages
Isbn
9780606393607
Lccn
2015953714
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
Other control number
99964906657
System control number
(OCoLC)918995181

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