num_pages: 343
description: Within the padded walls of a military hospital sits Birdy, utterly silent. But who is to say that he's really mad? His sub-standard army psychiatrist still hasn't caught on that his patient seems to think that he's a bird, and recruits Birdy's childhood friend to try to get through to him. Out of a young man's need for escape and his consuming obsession with birds and flight, William Wharton has spun a dazzling story shot through with humour, wisdom, tenderness, tragedy and longing.
language: English
title: Birdy
titlecomplete: Birdy
characters: Birdy, Al
genres: Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Mental Illness, American, War, Psychology, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 7241
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Avon Books