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Silhouette of a sparrow / Molly Beth Griffin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffin, Molly Beth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--Fiction.
- Feminism.
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Self-actualization (Psychology).
- Lesbians--Fiction.
- Lesbians.
- Ornithology--Fiction.
- Ornithology.
- Excelsior (Minn.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Excelsior (Minn.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During the summer of 1926 in the lake resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper.
- Contents:
- SILHOUETTE OF A SPARROW; Prologue: American Robin (Turdus migratorius); Black- Capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapilla); Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus); Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata); Double- Crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus); Ruby- Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris); Snowy Egret (Egretta thula); Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea); Ring- Billed Gull (Larus delawarensis); American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos); Great Egret (Ardea alba); Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina); Red- Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis); Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
- White- Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris); Northern Oriole (Icterus galbula); Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura); Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias); Common Loon (Gavia immer); Eastern Screech Owl (Otus asio); Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis); Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula); Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos); EPILOGUE: American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis); Afterword and Acknowledgments: Fact and Fiction in Silhouette of a Sparrow; MOLLY BETH GRIFFIN; MILKWEED EDITIONS; JOIN US
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Milkweed prize for children's literature
- ISBN:
- 1-57131-861-5
- OCLC:
- 804664284
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