Yet as we read on, we become aware that the way it has been put together is robust indeed.įor starters, there is the title, referring to a well-known poem by Emily Dickinson, “ ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”, but not the poem by Dickinson used as an epigraph, “That Love is all there is / Is all we know of Love ” – so setting out a project at once oblique, nuanced and intellectually playful. This deeply moving book about death and its grief-stricken consolations – love and art – appears to be no more than a scattering of text, dialogue and poetry that lifts and settles on the page, the frailest sort of thing. His Grief Is the Thing With Feathers is the most exquisite little flight of a story captured between hardback covers, and its appearance has been crafted to show us that we are in for something unusual. Not every writer is interested in these kinds of distinctions, of course, but Max Porter certainly is. OL20032791W Page_number_confidence 83.33 Pages 134 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210619060922 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 203 Scandate 20210617052438 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781555977412 Tts_version 4.O h, the look of a book! Whether a novel’s weight and the appearance of its typeface indicate the heft of traditional narrative ambition or a lighter, more poetic hesitancy and compression whether we see block text and the roll call of chapters marching down a table of contents or lots of white space and a glancing, ragged-looking assemblage of pages: the feel and appearance of the story we hold in our hands has a huge influence on our reading expectations. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:02:10 Boxid IA40138206 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Grief is the thing with feathers