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Title	:	Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Author	:	Max Porter
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 114 pages
Published	:	September 17th 2015 by Faber & Faber (first published August 24th 2015)
Categories	:	Poetry. Fiction. Magical Realism. Contemporary

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter

Hardcover | Pages: 114 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 23466 Users | 3387 Reviews

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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 self-described sentimental bird is attracted to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and physical pain of loss gives way to memories, this little unit of three begin to heal. In this extraordinary debut - part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's compassion and bravura style combine to dazzling effect. Full of unexpected humour and profound emotional truth, Grief is the Thing with Feathers marks the arrival of a thrilling new talent.

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Original Title:	Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
ISBN:	0571323766 (ISBN13: 9780571323760)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Crow (Gittwf), Dad (Gittwf), Boys (Gittwf)
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2015), Dylan Thomas Prize (2016), Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2016), Goldsmiths Prize Nominee (2015), Europese Literatuurprijs (2017)

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First read: Two starsRead it in English. Didn't understand quite a few expressions, the plot felt forced and I thought that the metaphors were a bit heavy-handed. Much of the symbolism went right over my head, too. I'm going to give it another try, this time in traslation, so we'll see if my thoughts change.Second read: Three starsMuch better than I remember it - and an excellent work by the Serbian translator - but still not quite something that blows me away.

I'm putting this on my poetry shelf even though it isn't really poetry, but the way it is written feels like prose poetry.. sometimes.This is fiction and so many of the grief books I have been reading lately are non-fiction, so in some ways it doesn't feel as "true." Partly because it is imagined in the way fiction always is, but also in the way that the father in the story is writing from the perspective of an imaginary crow, because it connects to Ted Hughes and he is a Ted Hughes scholar, and



An year ago I lost my best friend. The feeling was impossible to describe and until now nothing I had read made much sense to me. But then, I read this: "Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. " In the day after this "anniversary", I was in France and I went to Shakespeare and Company and the first book I notice was this. I took it, I turned some pages, I put it down, but in the end I brought it with me. I read it in the

When I first saw this book I kept thinking about how familiar the title sounded, and then I remembered the Emily Dickens poem Hope is a Thing With Feathers is what rang a bell here - hope not grief. While this novella is about the depths of grief, I couldnt help but have hope for these characters. Theres no question about it . This is an odd story. The narrative alternates between the Crow and the Dad and the two Boys who are grieving the untimely death of a wife and mother. Crow comes into

You Cannot Prevent the Birds of Sorrow from Flying over Your Head, but You Can Prevent Them from Building a Nest in Your Hair Chinese ProverbI picked this up because the title struck me like a poem in itself, sounding like an titillating modulation on that wonderful poem Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson (view spoiler)[I am intrigued by the technique of altering variations on a theme, like in music, and keen on searching for changes in harmony, rhythm, melody, or orchestration

This book is a wonderful reading experience, one of a kind. It's presented as a novella, but for me it was more like a collection of poems. The language is inventive and brutal and beautiful. It's not an easy read (especially if English is not your mother-tongue), even though it is very short, and you should definitely take your time to digest this book. And: the 'Dad' in the book is a Ted-Hughes-scholar, i.e. it helps for your understanding of the book if you also read Crow, a collection of