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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)

Birdy

William Wharton

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 5633 Users | 222 Reviews

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

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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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I think I like this the more I think about it. Meanders slowly, evasively, as the characters rehash the past and find the courage to move forward. Not much memorable writing aside from the birdsongs."There is nothing of fright when one flies free. There's only the taste of air and touching nowhere. I see the earth below and it's down the way the sky is up when you look from the ground. Everything is out or away and the play of gravity is like sand."

The story is that of two men who have known each other since childhood, both of whom are locked up in a military hospital. The book goes back and forth between present day and the past. The past mostly involved one of the boy's obsession with breeding canaries and learning how to fly. This is the kind of book with a plot I don't even want to discuss because if you knew what it was about you'd likely have no interest in it. 10 pages of detailed descriptions of tending to canary breeding? It

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.

'Birdy' was author William Wharton's first novel, written at age 50. 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. Alfonso, his best friend, is a child abused by a gruff father. He channels his anger into playing sports, at which he excels, and beating people up, at which he also excels.

Holy Jesus with the canary minutiae, I mean SERIOUSLY. Although it was slightly more interesting than what one might think, it's still hours of canary minutiae. Canary minutiae does not a story make.I'd really like to give this 1.5 stars, because I will never read it again, and I will never recommend it to anyone, yet there were definitely bits that I liked. But overall, it was just . . . the author had nothing to say. "Maybe everyone ELSE are the crazy ones!" Gee, never heard that one before,

Birdy is a quirky story of friendship and insanity in a brutal world. The character Birdy is a skinny Philly kid who is obsessed with birds and wants to fly and become a bird. The blur between dream and reality is well written and fascinating. Birdy's only friend is Al, a tough, poor Italian kid. Birdy and Al are traumatized by the horror of war.Both the novel and movie are worthy.

This was weak at the beginning and end for me, but the middle was packed. Some chapters I loved, loved, loved... some lost me. Toward the end, I got tired and I think Wharton got tired. I understand why it was awarded, I looked forward to reading it, and I also know more about birds than I ever thought that I would care to know. I think parts of this story will stick with me for a long time, and I would highly recommend it for some people, but for whatever reason, it is not a 4 or 5 star for me.