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H is for hawk / Helen Macdonald.

By: Macdonald, Helen, 1970- [author.]Material type: TextTextCopyright date: ♭2014Description: 300 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802123411Subject(s): Macdonald, Helen, 1970- | White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964 | Falconry | Goshawk | Grief | SpiritualityDDC classification: 598.944 | B LOC classification: QL696.F32 | M33 2014
Contents:
Part I. Patience -- Lost -- Small worlds -- Mr White -- Holding tight -- The box of stars -- Invisibility -- The Rembrandt interior -- The rite of passage -- Darkness -- Leaving home -- Outlaws -- Alice, falling -- The line -- For whom the bell -- Rain -- Heat --
Part II. Flying free -- Extinction -- Hiding -- Fear -- Apple day -- Memorial -- Drugs -- Magical places -- The flight of time -- The new world -- Winter histories -- Enter spring -- The moving earth -- Postscript.
Awards: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, 2014.Summary: H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey--an honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T.H. White, best known for The Once and Future King. It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.
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Book A J M Library 868-5076
B MACD (Browse shelf) Available 35265

Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297).

Part I. Patience -- Lost -- Small worlds -- Mr White -- Holding tight -- The box of stars -- Invisibility -- The Rembrandt interior -- The rite of passage -- Darkness -- Leaving home -- Outlaws -- Alice, falling -- The line -- For whom the bell -- Rain -- Heat --

Part II. Flying free -- Extinction -- Hiding -- Fear -- Apple day -- Memorial -- Drugs -- Magical places -- The flight of time -- The new world -- Winter histories -- Enter spring -- The moving earth -- Postscript.

H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey--an honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T.H. White, best known for The Once and Future King. It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, 2014.

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