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Languages : en
Pages : 63
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The Young Bird-catchers
Author: The Bird Catcher
Author: Laura JacobsPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429987758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Margret Snow is the quintessential New York woman. She dresses the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue by day and mingles in the downtown art world by night, always searching for her niche in a city intent on capturing The Next Big Thing as it flies into view. Married to Charles, a professor at Columbia, and living on the Upper West Side, the backdrop to Margret's life is made up of the poetic rhythms and colors of the Manhattan day: slow-running buses, the gray morning light striking the Hudson, the winter landscape of Riverside Park, the endless round of gallery openings, cocktail parties and grand dinners in the palatial apartments on Manhattan's upper east side. Against this metropolitan whirl, Margret and Charles pursue a lifelong hobby of bird watching, a passion for which was kindled by her grandfather during long-past summers near the shore in Gloucester, Massachusetts. As they shuttle between their Manhattan apartment, birding in the city's parks, and weekends out of town in their house near Cape May, a violent upheaval pushes Margret beyond the boundaries of her hobby. Overnight, she becomes an art world sensation and just as suddenly has fame ripped from her. As Laura Jacobs proved in her first novel, "Women About Town", she understands the natural habitat of the New York Woman in all its complexity. In The Bird Catcher, her second, she moves deeper into that territory with the story of a remarkable woman who is as rare and special as the birds that fill the skies above her.
The Bird Catcher and Other Stories
Author: Fayeza HasanatPublisher: Jaded Ibis Press, LLC
ISBN: 9781937543754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Set in Bangladesh and the United States, the eight stories in The Bird Catcher address gender expectations, familial love, and questions of identity and belonging. In "The Anomalous Wife," when Nirjhara decides she wants to walk into the ocean, her husband of thirty years is confused: she has the perfect life, he insists, the life of a dutiful housewife and mother who wants for nothing in her adopted country. The staff at the psychiatric facility can't even pronounce Nirjhara's name, let alone understand her mordant humor and her use of wide-ranging literary references (from Rabindranath Tagore to Sylvia Plath to The Ancient Mariner) to describe her despair. The other stories are equally resonant and thought-provoking. A college professor has to contend with a student who "laughed every time I struggled on a word that didn't want to come out of my forked tongue: one part third world, one part hyphenated American." A young woman enjoys a loving but complicated relationship with her mother-in-law, a Bangladeshi immigrant who is both ebullient and opinionated, charming and exasperating. In the title story, drawing on fairy tale motifs, string theory, Sufi philosphy, and other traditions, a bird and a recluse argue over the nature of time and the meaning of freedom. The Bird Catcher offers wide-ranging variations on the theme of diasporic identity, intriguing glimpses into suppressed, fragmented, and resilient lives, and a meditation on the power and limitations of language. As Nirjhara explains in "The Anomalous Wife," "Life is all about right word choices, right verbs, and right prepositions. If you walk by the ocean, you are a lover of life. If you walk into it out of your love for the ocean, you are kept here as a prisoner until you learn the correct use of prepositions."
Red Knot
Author: Nancy Carol WillisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780966276152
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Describes the 20,000-mile annual migration of a shorebird called a Red knot, from the tip of South America to the Arctic tundra nesting grounds and back.
The Young Bird Watchers, Etc. (Revised Edition.).
Author: Arthur Finch Clitheroe HILLSTEADPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The Zoologist
Author: The Zoologist
Author: Edward NewmanPublisher:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The Avicultural Magazine
Author: The Baby Bird Rescue!
Author: Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781416990772
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this new Wonder Pets adventure, a baby hummingbird has its beak stuck in an apple. Can the Wonder Pets help? As Ming-Ming says, "Apple-solutely!" Based on a popular TV episode, this book is sure to be a huge hit with Wonder Pets fans. Go, Wonder Pets!
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