The Bird Market of Paris
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2015
Henry Holt & Company Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8050-9651-4 (ISBN)
Henry Holt & Company Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8050-9651-4 (ISBN)
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The author grew up in 1980s Miami, the only child of parents who worked, played, and travelled for luxury sports car dealerships. At home, her grandmother cooked for and fed her, but it was her grandfather - an evening-gown designer, storyteller, and bird expert - who was her mentor and dearest companion. This book tells her story.
Nikki Moustaki, author of The Bird Market of Paris, grew up in 1980s Miami, the only child of parents who worked, played, and travelled for luxury sports car dealerships. At home, her doting grandmother cooked for and fed her, but it was her grandfather - an evening-gown designer, riveting storyteller, and bird expert - who was her mentor and dearest companion. Like her grandfather, Nikki fell hard for birds. "Birds filled my childhood," she writes, "as blue filled the sky." Her grandfather showed her how to hypnotize chickens, sneak up on pigeons, and handle baby birds. He gave her a white dove to release for luck on each birthday. And he urged her to, someday, visit the bird market of Paris. But by the time Nikki graduated from college and moved to New York City, she was succumbing to alcohol and increasingly unable to care for her flock. When her grandfather died, guilt-ridden Nikki drank even more. In a last-ditch effort to honour her grandfather, she flew to France hoping to visit the bird market of Paris to release a white dove. Instead, something astonishing happened there that saved Nikki's life.
Nikki Moustaki, author of The Bird Market of Paris, grew up in 1980s Miami, the only child of parents who worked, played, and travelled for luxury sports car dealerships. At home, her doting grandmother cooked for and fed her, but it was her grandfather - an evening-gown designer, riveting storyteller, and bird expert - who was her mentor and dearest companion. Like her grandfather, Nikki fell hard for birds. "Birds filled my childhood," she writes, "as blue filled the sky." Her grandfather showed her how to hypnotize chickens, sneak up on pigeons, and handle baby birds. He gave her a white dove to release for luck on each birthday. And he urged her to, someday, visit the bird market of Paris. But by the time Nikki graduated from college and moved to New York City, she was succumbing to alcohol and increasingly unable to care for her flock. When her grandfather died, guilt-ridden Nikki drank even more. In a last-ditch effort to honour her grandfather, she flew to France hoping to visit the bird market of Paris to release a white dove. Instead, something astonishing happened there that saved Nikki's life.
Nikki Moustaki is the author of twenty-five books on the care and training of exotic birds. She holds an MA in creative writing, poetry, from New York University, an MFA in creative writing, poetry, from Indiana University, and an MFA in creative writing, fiction, from New York University. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in poetry, as well as many other national writing awards. She splits her time between New York City and Miami Beach.
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8050-9651-5 / 0805096515 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8050-9651-4 / 9780805096514 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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