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H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

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#99 of 3,809 books · #56 in Biography & Memoir

Won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2014). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 3 other awards.

H is for Hawk was one of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, one of Kirkus Reviews's Best Books of the 21st Century, one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, one of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years, and a New York Times bestseller. Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human discover the pain and beauty of being alive. H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

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Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN-13
9780802191670
Topics
Grief and lossFalconry and natureFather-daughter relationships

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