![]() Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent. ![]() Irish Times Grief is the Thing with Feathers, by Max Porter (Faber), is his debut and it is a book to cherish. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter’s extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. The Spectator (UK) Part prose, part poetry, Grief is the Thing with Feathers is a lyrical explanation of grief and healing exquisite passages of brilliance and beauty abound throughout. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow’s efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes the boys get on with it, grow up. 2016 by Max Porter (Author) 4.1 3,675 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £5.98 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0. ![]() This self-described “sentimental bird,” at once wild and tender, who “finds humans dull except in grief,” threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers Paperback 7 Jun. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow-antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. ![]() And there are his two sons, who, like him, struggle in their London flat to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar-a man adrift in the wake of his wife’s sudden, accidental death. ![]()
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