Grief Is The Thing With Feathers (now A Major Motion Picture)
By (author) Porter, Max
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By (author) Porter, Max
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In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother''s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter.
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Biographical note:
Max Porter''s first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers'' Award. His second novel, Lanny, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has also written The Death of Francis Bacon, the short film All of this Unreal Time and the pamphlet It''s Going to Be a Bright New Day.
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Winner of the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
Review quote: previous edition:
Amazing and unforgettable.
Review quote: previous edition:
Max Porter is one of my favorite writers in the world. Why? Because he''s always asking the most important questions and then finding ways - through innovative structures and that inimitable voice -of answering those questions soulfully, with his full attention, in ways that make the world seem stranger and more dear (or more dear because stranger). He gives his readers, in other words, bursts of new vision.
Review quote: previous edition:
''If I were Max Porter and I had written Grief is The Thing with Feathers, I''d feel as if I never had to lift a finger, creatively, ever again, having written the perfect book.''
Review quote: previous edition:
Dazzlingly good . . . Anyone who has ever loved someone, or lost someone, or both, will be gripped by it. It''s very sad and very funny.
Review quote: previous edition:
Brilliant . . . solid, muscular, moving, funny and clever. I can''t wait to see what Max Porter does next.
Review quote: previous edition:
One of the most surprising books this year.
Review quote: previous edition:
Unlike anything I''ve read before.
Review quote: previous edition:
A blast and a breeze and, strangely, a delight.
Review quote: previous edition:
A beguiling literary hybrid.
Review quote: previous edition:
Utterly astonishing. Truly, truly remarkable.
Review quote: previous edition:
Funny and warm and real, t
Short description/annotation:
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother''s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter.
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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Winner of the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
''Amazing and unforgettable.'' THE TIMES
''Dazzlingly good.'' ROBERT MACFARLANE
''Unlike anything I''ve read before.'' GUARDIAN
''Captivating, poetic, and surprising.'' CILLIAN MURPHY
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother''s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.
In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him.
This extraordinary debut, full of unexpected humour and emotional truth, marks the arrival of a thrilling and significant new talent.
Biographical note:
Max Porter''s first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers'' Award. His second novel, Lanny, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has also written The Death of Francis Bacon, the short film All of this Unreal Time and the pamphlet It''s Going to Be a Bright New Day.
Promotional headline:
Winner of the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
Review quote: previous edition:
Amazing and unforgettable.
Review quote: previous edition:
Max Porter is one of my favorite writers in the world. Why? Because he''s always asking the most important questions and then finding ways - through innovative structures and that inimitable voice -of answering those questions soulfully, with his full attention, in ways that make the world seem stranger and more dear (or more dear because stranger). He gives his readers, in other words, bursts of new vision.
Review quote: previous edition:
''If I were Max Porter and I had written Grief is The Thing with Feathers, I''d feel as if I never had to lift a finger, creatively, ever again, having written the perfect book.''
Review quote: previous edition:
Dazzlingly good . . . Anyone who has ever loved someone, or lost someone, or both, will be gripped by it. It''s very sad and very funny.
Review quote: previous edition:
Brilliant . . . solid, muscular, moving, funny and clever. I can''t wait to see what Max Porter does next.
Review quote: previous edition:
One of the most surprising books this year.
Review quote: previous edition:
Unlike anything I''ve read before.
Review quote: previous edition:
A blast and a breeze and, strangely, a delight.
Review quote: previous edition:
A beguiling literary hybrid.
Review quote: previous edition:
Utterly astonishing. Truly, truly remarkable.
Review quote: previous edition:
Funny and warm and real, t
