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Bird by Bird

Paperback • 1995 • English

Bird by Bird

By Anne Lamott

2 Ratings • 4.5 of 5

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About the book

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said. 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just...Show more

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Book details

ISBN

9780385480017

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Published year

1995

Language

English

Original title

Bird by Bird

Format

Paperback

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