Birdy
Birdy
Author: William Wharton
Desc: 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.