Elsewhere in the land of parrots : a novel / Monica Ali.
"When reclusive San Francisco poet David Huntington receives a wild parrot -- an unwanted gift from his father -- his carefully sheltered life comes undone. Little Wittgenstein has a jungle shriek, fierce eyes, and a beak that wreaks havoc first on David's apartment and then on his life. When the parrot drives away the first woman he's met in months, David throws the bird out the window -- and follows it out into the world." -- back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 0151004951
- ISBN: 9780151004959
- Physical Description: 305 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: Orlando : Harcourt, 2003.
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- A wild parrot, a gift from his father, becomes the breach in the dike: Little Wittgenstein has a jungle shriek, fierce eyes, and a beak that wreaks havoc. David finally throws the bird out the window > and follows it into the world. His guilty search for the parrot takes him first to Telegraph Hill, where the parrot may have found others of its kind. Inexorably David is drawn even farther, lured to South America by rumors of an ancient flock in the wild mangrove swamps. There he meets the lovely level-headed Fern, an American scientist who has her own reasons for searching for the birds. Will he retreat, or follow the parrots' call?
Americans > South America > Fiction.
Exotic bird owners > Fiction.
Parrots > Fiction.
Poets > Fiction.
Recluses > Fiction.
South America > Fiction.
Telegraph Hill (San Francisco, Calif.) > Fiction. - Genre:
- Action and adventure fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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