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Bird Lovers, Backyard

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ISBN-10: 0811218406

ISBN-13: 9780811218405

Edition: 2010

Authors: Thalia Field

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Description:

Bird Lovers, Backyard continues Thalia Field’s interrogation of the act of storytelling and her experimentation with literary genre. Field’s illuminating essays, or stories, in poetic form, place scientists, philosophers, animals, even the military, in real and imagined events. Her open questioning brings in subjects as diverse as pigeons, chat rooms, nuclear testing, the building of the Kennedy Space Center, the development of seaside beaches, Konrad Lorenz, the American author and animal trainer Vicki Hearne, and the Swiss zoologist Heini Hediger. Throughout, she intermingles fact and fiction, probing the porous boundaries between human and animal, calling into question “what we are…    
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Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 4/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English