LEADER 01431ojm 2200253z- 450 001 9910148892103321 005 20230912161814.0 010 $a0-00-749007-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000923830 035 $a(BIP)039059095 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000923830 100 $a20231107c2012uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aBirdy 210 $cHarperCollins UK 330 8 $aAn extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America's most revered authors of the 20th Century. Two teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre-War Philadelphia. Al is obsessed with lifting weights, looking od and chasing girls. Birdy is obsessed with flight.Birdy's passion becomes all-encompassing. Birdy wants to fly. A few years later these young men find themselves emotionally and physically scarred by Word War Two. Al is called to an army psychiatric hospital to help the doctors there treat his friend, who he finds squatting on the floor of his cell and acting like a bird. This haunting and brilliant novel has electrified readers the world over. It has truly become a modern classic. In 1984, Birdy was turned into an award-winning movie directed by Alan Parker and starring Nicholas Cage and Matthew Modine 517 $aBirdy 676 $a813/.54 700 $aWharton$b William$0457310 702 $aDavies$b Jot$4oth 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910148892103321 996 $aBirdy$943008 997 $aUNINA