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When English author Max Porter wrote his 2015 debut novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, he never imagined it would end up on bookshelves, let alone on world stages.
In his book, Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage, which Chronicle Books published this month, that diversity is on spectacular display. While Clark’s journey is surely aesthetic, it’s also ...
Other creatures, after all, had their own forms of ingenuity. ... Noah Strycker makes a similar point in "The Thing With Feathers," his book about bird behavior.
Their third book, FEATHERS TOGETHER (Abrams, 40 pp., $18.99, ages 4 to 8) ... a journey Malena wasn’t able to make because her wing had been injured by a poacher and she couldn’t fly. ...
"When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky" Author: Margaret Verble. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 384 pages, $27. Cherokee cowgirl Nancy Benge grew up on the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch in Oklahoma, “the ...
Everything in the natural world is fair game for study, San Juan Island conservation biologist Thor Hanson writes in his delightful second book, “Feathers” (Basic Books, 336 pp., $26.99). His ...
THE STRUGGLE OF THE MODERN by Stephen Spender. 266 pages. University of California. $5.In the words of Wordsworth, Milton had a "voice whose sound was like the sea." So, in their own way, ...
We know Sinclair Browning as the author of two fine historical novels (Enju and America's Best), the Trade Ellis mystery series based in the Tucson area and the co-author of Lyons on Horses. Her ...
Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter, book review. ... “We had to take the piss out of him as hard we possibly could. We were convinced that it was what our Mum would have wanted. ...