H is for Hawk

The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner

AvHelen Macdonald

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Engelska, 2014

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Discover the memoir that inspired the major new film starring Claire Foy and Brendan GleesonThe hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. An instant international bestseller and prize-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising a goshawk has soared into the hearts of millions of readers. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human discover the pain and beauty of being alive.H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying masterpiece on grief, memory, taming and untaming, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.'An absolute classic of nature writing’ Guardian 'It just sings. I couldn't stop reading' Mark Haddon‘One of the best grief books ever written’ Cariad Lloyd

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-07-31
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781448130726
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
Utmärkelser:Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 (UK)

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Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Their books include H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Sunday Times bestselling Vesper Flights. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.

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"It just sings. I couldn't stop reading." -- Mark Haddon "This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent." -- Andrew Motion "H is for Hawk is a dazzling piece of work: deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence... The result is a deeply human work shot through...with intelligence and compassion... I will be surprised if a better book than H is for Hawk is published this year." -- Melissa Harrison Financial Times "I'm convinced it's going to be an absolute classic of nature writing." -- Nick Barley Guardian "I can't remember the last time a book made me feel so many different things in such quick succession." -- Rachel Cooke Guardian