Rara avis
By: Jacqueline Weld
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Books & Co.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781885983299
Subjects: Fiction; Parrots; Political crimes and offenses
Description: A magic-realism novel on a parrot serving as defense lawyer for a bourgeois family, on trial for being lazy and superfluous. A spoof on South American dictatorships by a New York writer, great-granddaughter of an Uruguayan president.
Notes: Also issued online.