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Title: Broken Wing

Author: David Budbill

ISBN: 9780996267632

Publisher: Green Writers Pr

Published: 2016

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 213

Condition: Used Copy

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Broken Wing is the story of one man’s love for birds and efforts to save a rusty blackbird that can’t fly south for the winter. Set in the remote mountains to the north, Broken Wing is an allegorical tale about a rusty blackbird with a broken wing who can’t fly and therefore is trapped in the inhospitable north country for the winter, and a man, known only as The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains, who lives a solitary life of nurturing attentiveness, simple kindness, and passionate emotional intensity. Broken Wing is the story of how these two different lives come together. A story of loneliness, survival, tenacity, and will, Broken Wing is also about music and race and what it is like to be a minority in a strange place. A story of the natural world and the wonder of birds’ lives, and of one man’s deep connection to them, Broken Wing becomes a song of praise for the cycle of the seasons and a meditation on the reality of dreams and the dreamlike quality of reality. It is also the story of one individual black man told from outside the usual stereotypes about African-American males, which is a perspective seldom seen in America literature. Told with simple, dignified prose Broken Wing takes on the timeless, mythic aura of a folktale.