Description
ISBN: 0224017322
Title: Birdy
Author: Wharton, William
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Publication Date: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: NF
D-j Condition: VG
Comments: D-j has a few negligible spots. Mark on front inside pastedown. Light fading to top edge. D-j pc’d.
Synopsis: An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America’s most revered authors of the 20th Century. Two teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre War Philadelphia. Al is obsessed with lifting weights, looking good and chasing girls. Birdy is obsessed with flight. Birdy’s passion becomes all encompassing. Birdy wants to fly. A few years later these young men find themselves emotionally and physically scarred by Word War II (as Wharton himself was). Al is called to an army psychiatric hospital to help the doctors there treat his friend, who he finds squatting on the floor of his cell and acting like a bird. This haunting and brilliant debut novel has become a modern classic. In 1984, Birdy was turned into an award winning movie directed by Alan Parker and starring Nicholas Cage and Matthew Modine.
