Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter

Original title: Grief is the thing with feathers

earliest edition we have, 2015 this edition, 2016 114 pages

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks...

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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers edition · 2016 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 128 pages · 9780571327232
Grief is the thing with feathers edition · 2016 · 114 pages · 9781555977412
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers edition · 2016 · Graywolf Press · 128 pages · 9781555979379
Grief is the Thing with Feathers hardcover · 2015 · FABER FABER · 114 pages · 9780571323760
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers edition · 2015 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571323777

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