Helen Macdonald

H is for Hawk (eBook, ePUB)

Love, loss and the wild: the soaring masterpiece of memoir and nature writing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.

An instant international bestseller and prize-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising a goshawk has soared into the hearts of millions of readers. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human discover the pain and beauty of being alive.

H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying masterpiece on grief, memory, taming and untaming, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.

'An absolute classic of nature writing' Guardian
'It just sings. I couldn't stop reading' Mark Haddon
'One of the best grief books ever written' Cariad Lloyd

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448130726
• Artikelnr.: 41335070

Autorenporträt

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Their books include H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Sunday Times bestselling Vesper Flights. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.

Rezensionen

This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent. Andrew Motion