Birdy

Description

Within the padded walls of a military hospital sits Birdy, utterly silent. But who is to say that he’s really mad? His sub-standard army psychiatrist still hasn’t caught on that his patient seems to think that he’s a bird, and recruits Birdy’s childhood friend to try to get through to him. Out of a young man’s need for escape and his consuming obsession with birds and flight, William Wharton has spun a dazzling story shot through with humour, wisdom, tenderness, tragedy and longing.

• Author: William Wharton
• Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
• Published: 2001-11-01
• Pages: 281
• ISBN-13: 9780099428244