H IS FOR HAWK - Helen Macdonald

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~ Standard Hardcover ~ Winner of the Costa Book Award for Biography - 2014, the Foreign Book Prize for Novel - 2016, the Costa Book of the Year Award - 2014, and the Baillie Giffor d Prize for Non-Fiction - 2014 Heart-wrenching and humorous, H is for Hawk is an unflinching account of bereavement, a record of a spiritual journey, and a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast, topped with a writer's eccentric falconry hobby. What unfolds is an unflinchingly honest account of Helen Macdonald's own struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming, and her own untaming. Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine in H is for Hawk to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from Helen Macdonald, an outstanding literary innovator who has combined nature and human nature with great originality. A work of enormous spirit and wonder, H is for Hawk is not just a definitive work on falconry; it is a definitive work on humanity, and all that can and cannot be possessed.” -- Rick Bass, author of Winter, The Ninemile Wolves, and The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness Show more