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AlbakiReads Editorial Birdwatching at Full Tilt
Birdwatching at Full Tilt
Pelican Blood enters the competitive, obsessive world of birders, where a pager alert about a rare sighting can send Bish, Stevie Red Bus, and their friends racing from ordinary routines to distant coasts and islands. Birdwatching is presented as more than a pastime: it offers release from personal troubles, a shared pursuit, and an impulse intense enough to reshape priorities. Against this culture of “superticks” and urgent journeys, the novel also traces an unstable search for lasting connection, with relationships found, lost, and revisited.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Literary-fiction readers interested in subcultures and shared obsessions
- Birdwatchers curious about a fictional portrayal of twitching culture
- Readers interested in relationships shaped by an all-consuming pursuit
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BirdwatchingObsessionEscapeCommunityRomantic connection
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Book Overview One of the most exciting debut novels for years - and a book that does for birdwatching what Trainspotting did for smack addiction...'I h...
One of the most exciting debut novels for years - and a book that does for birdwatching what Trainspotting did for smack addiction...
'I heard somebody say once: you don't think about your troubles near water. Me, I can't feel low around birds. it wipes your mind clean just watching them.'
Birders are addicts. Rarely-seen birds are the best drug they know. Whether they're cleaning toilets, sitting in a caff, doodling or dancing, when the pager bleeps with news that up on Stornoway or out on the Kent salt-flats or on a Scilly rock there's a supertick sighting, Bish, Stevie Red Bus and the gang pile into their car and belt up the motorway just for the pure thrill, the shared exaltation of seeing that rare bird in all its feathered reality.
It's some way to live a life, at least. Half the time it matters so much you'll kill to protect it and half the time you wonder why you bother carrying on at all. And somewhere in between you might just find something that looks like mating for life: find it, lose it, then find it all over again.
Pelican Blood is a rare sighting itself: an irreverent, funny, moving novel that soars and swoops as gracefully as the birds it so adores.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 240 | Language: English | Publisher: PERENNIAL | ISBN: 0007185197
FormatPaperback
Pages240
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0007185197
EAN9780007185191
PublisherPERENNIAL
Publication Date2006-04-03
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.4 Pounds
Length7.5 Inches
Width5.0 Inches
Height0.8 Inches
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