Grief is the Thing with Feathers

GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS

PORTER, MAX

Parenting & Relationships

Faber&Faber

Lanny

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.\nNot far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here, such as the boy Lanny, and his mum and dad. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all.\n'Books this good don't come along very often.' Maggie O'Farrell 
'Startling, moving and overwhelming . . . Wonderful.' Daily Telegraph 
'Stunning and deeply affecting.' Nathan Filer 
'A magically beguiling work, a triumph.' Financial Times 
A thing of total joy . . . thrums with rhythm and life.' Observer 
'A devastating, disquieting and exhilarating book.' Psychologies

Lanny: Author of the Number One Sunday Times Bestseller SHY

Literature & Fiction

Literary

A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny.\nMadrid.\nUnfinished.\nMan Dying.\nA great painter lies on his deathbed.\nMax Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.

The Death of Francis Bacon

Contemporary

Shy: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Genre Fiction

Faber & Faber, Limited

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described ""sentimental bird,"" at once wild and tender, who ""finds humans dull except in grief,"" threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.

Grief Is The Thing With Feathers (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing and reveling in pleasure and pain as a lifetime of chaotic and grotesque sense memories wash over and envelop him. In this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Max Porter inhabits Francis Bacon in his final moments, translating into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind. Writing as painting rather than about painting, Porter lets the images he conjures speak for themselves as they take their revenge on the subject who wielded them in life. The result is more than a biography: The Death of Francis Bacon is a physical, emotional, historical, sexual, and political bombardment--the measure of a man creative and compromised, erotic and masochistic, inexplicable and inspired.

The Death of Francis Bacon: A Novel

Strange Light

This is the story of a horse trainer from the racetrack in Kentucky, who makes a journey through the old west in the late eighteen hundreds, match racing against the horsemen he meets.Match racing is a world apart from organized racing. The only rules in match racing are what you negotiate them to be. It is a world populated by semi-con men and gamblers. If you are not extremely careful it can be hazardous to your health, because some of the players are poor losers, who would rather fight than pay.Our story will furnish the reader an insight into the world of match racing, where it takes more than the best horse to be successful. It will also give you a sense of the dangers faced by a man traveling the long desolate trails of the undeveloped west. He must be on the alert at all times to protect himself and his horses from theives and bandits.The Author understand how the game is played in both organized and unorganized racing. He was involved in match racing in California for several years before he went to the racetrack as a trainer.

Odyssey of a Horseman

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar-a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised.In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow-antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up.Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel

Tantor Audio

Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised.
In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up.
Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.

Graywolf Press

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GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS

Lanny: Author of the Number One Sunday Times Bestseller SHY

The Death of Francis Bacon

Shy: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Grief Is The Thing With Feathers (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

The Death of Francis Bacon: A Novel

Odyssey of a Horseman

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel