
The Flight of Birds
A Novel in Twelve Stories
Joshua Lobb(Author)
Sydney University Press
Published on 8. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
322 pages
978-1-74332-583-4 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction in 2019!
The Flight of Birds is a novel in twelve stories, each of them compelled by an encounter between the human and animal worlds. The birds in these stories inhabit the same space as humans, but they are also apart, gliding above us. The Flight of Birds: A Novel in Twelve Stories explores what happens when the two worlds meet.
Joshua Lobb’s stories are at once intimate and expansive, grounded in an exquisite sense of place. The birds in these stories are variously free and wild, native and exotic, friendly and hostile. Humans see some of them as pets, some of them as pests, and some of them as food. Through a series of encounters between birds and humans, the book unfolds as a meditation on grief and loss, isolation and depression, and the momentary connections that sustain us through them. Underpinning these interactions is an awareness of climate change, of the violence we do to the living beings around us, and of the possibility of transformation.
The Flight of Birds will change how you think about the planet and humanity’s place in it.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
A5: Tankobon
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
418 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74332-583-4 (9781743325834)
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Person
Joshua Lobb teaches creative writing and literary studies at the University of Wollongong. His award-winning stories have appeared in The Bridport Anthology, Best Australian Stories, Animal Studies Journal, Text and Southerly.