num_pages: 288
description: Within the padded walls of a military hospital sits Birdy, utterly silent, doomed to endure the stupidity of a sub-standard army psychiatrist. Out of a young man's need for escape and his consuming obsession with birds and flight, comes a story of humour, wisdom, tenderness, tragedy and longing.
language: English
title: Birdy
titlecomplete: Birdy
characters: Al, Birdy
genres: American, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mental Illness, Literature, War, Contemporary, Classics, Novels, Psychology
ratings_count: 7244
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random