The Resource Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel, Max Porter
Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel, Max Porter
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The item Grief is the thing with feathers : a novel, Max Porter represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.
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- 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. --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 114 pages
- Note
- "First published in 2015 by Faber & Faber Ltd., London"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780606393607
- 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
- Subject
-
- Bereavement -- Fiction
- Chagrin -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Deuil -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- England -- London
- Familles sans mère -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Family life -- Fiction
- Father-son relationship -- Fiction
- Fathers and sons
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Grief
- Grief -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Bereavement
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Mothers -- Death
- Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
- Novellas
- Novellas
- Novellas
- Pères et fils -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Veufs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Widowers
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Widowers -- Fiction
- novellas
- Motherless families
- Bereavement -- Fiction
- 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
- 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
- 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
Subject
- Bereavement -- Fiction
- Chagrin -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Deuil -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- England -- London
- Familles sans mère -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Family life -- Fiction
- Father-son relationship -- Fiction
- Fathers and sons
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Grief
- Grief -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Bereavement
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Mothers -- Death
- Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
- Novellas
- Novellas
- Novellas
- Pères et fils -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Veufs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Widowers
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Widowers -- Fiction
- novellas
- Motherless families
- Bereavement -- Fiction
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