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Birdy / by William Wharton.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.H32 B57 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Military hospitals.
- War--Psychological aspects.
- United States.
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- Teenage boys--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- War--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
- War.
- Military hospitals--Fiction.
- Prisons--Fiction.
- Prisons.
- United States--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Fiction.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
- Summary:
- An inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness." Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale--one that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York in 1978."
- ISBN:
- 0679734120
- 9780679734123
- OCLC:
- 23941078
- Online:
- Publisher description
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