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Birds of a lesser paradise : stories / Megan Mayhew Bergman.
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- ISBN: 9781451643350 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1451643357 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781451643367 (trade paper)
- ISBN: 1451643365 (trade paper)
- Physical Description: 224 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Housewifely arts -- The cow that milked herself -- Birds of a lesser paradise -- Saving face -- Yesterday's whales -- Another story she won't believe -- The urban coop -- The right company -- Night hunting -- Every vein a tooth -- The artificial heart -- The two-thousand-dollar sock. |
| Summary, etc.: | Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world, Megan Mayhew Bergman's powerful and heartwarming collection captures the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes evident, when love or fear collide with good sense, or when our attachment to an animal or wild place can't be denied. |
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| Subject: | Biology in literature. |
| Genre: | Short stories. |
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Birds of a Lesser Paradise : Stories
From a prizewinning young writer whose stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South comes a heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world. Megan Mayhew Bergman's twelve stories capture the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes evident, when love or fear collide with good sense, or when our attachment to an animal or wild place can't be denied. In "Housewifely Arts," a single mother and her son drive hours to track down an African Gray Parrot that can mimic her deceased mother's voice. A population control activist faces the ultimate conflict between her loyalty to the environment and her maternal desire in "Yesterday's Whales." And in the title story, a lonely naturalist allows an attractive stranger to lead her and her aging father on a hunt for an elusive woodpecker. As intelligent as they are moving, the stories in Birds of a Lesser Paradise are alive with emotion, wit, and insight into the impressive power that nature has over all of us.
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