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On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) Hardcover - 2000
by J. D. McClatchy (Editor)
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- Title On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Later printing
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-03-28
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00LASL_ns
- ISBN 9780375407499 / 0375407499
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 6.52 x 4.44 x 0.77 in (16.56 x 11.28 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Birds
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00701337
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.81
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This classic, award-winning novel was included in Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon as a work likely to be cherished by future scholars, and in David Pringle's "Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels. It treats one of mankind's most persistent fantasies as a criminal offense.
Flying--it is a transcendental state, the highest exaltation of the soul, paradise itself, and it can be achieved simply by singing a song. But it is also illegal, at least in the state of Iowa, where everything's rationed, where people live in fortress-villages, and where Daniel Weinreb, intrepid native and incorrigible teen, does a stint in prison for having secretly delivered copies of the "Star-Tribune, the immoral daily from the infidel state of Minnesota. While in prison, he is advised by an inmate that if he wants to fly, he must make a mess of his life, and upon release, that is exactly what he does. For Daniel finds that he will do "anything in order to fly.
Flying--it is a transcendental state, the highest exaltation of the soul, paradise itself, and it can be achieved simply by singing a song. But it is also illegal, at least in the state of Iowa, where everything's rationed, where people live in fortress-villages, and where Daniel Weinreb, intrepid native and incorrigible teen, does a stint in prison for having secretly delivered copies of the "Star-Tribune, the immoral daily from the infidel state of Minnesota. While in prison, he is advised by an inmate that if he wants to fly, he must make a mess of his life, and upon release, that is exactly what he does. For Daniel finds that he will do "anything in order to fly.