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H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

Hardcover | Pages: 300 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 54420 Users | 7838 Reviews

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ISBN:	0224097008 (ISBN13: 9780224097000)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	T.H. White
Literary Awards:	Costa Book Award for Biography (2014), Orion Book Award Nominee (2016), Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (2016), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2015), Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2014) Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (Shortlist) (2016), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (Finalist) (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015), Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2014), Costa Book of the Year (2014), The Wainwright Golden Beer Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2015)

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Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an outstanding literary innovator. When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer—Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood—she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T.H. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her challenging endeavor. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity and changed her life. Heart-wrenching and humorous, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement and a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast, with a parallel examination of a legendary writer's eccentric falconry. Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an outstanding literary innovator.

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Title	:	H is for Hawk
Author	:	Helen Macdonald
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 300 pages
Published	:	July 31st 2014 by Jonathan Cape
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Environment. Nature. Biography. Animals

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The archaeology of grief is not ordered. It is more like earth under a spade, turning up things you had forgotten. Surprising things come to light: not simply memories, but states of mind, emotions, older ways of seeing the world. Helen MacDonald had suffered a great loss. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy wrote, Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Perhaps the same might be applied to grieving. I know for myself, during an acute period of grieving I was

I havent recently experience a great loss in my life, Ive never read T.H. Whites The Goshawk, and I knew nothing about hawking, but something about H is for Hawk always appealed to me. When it was first published a few years back it was the book that I met with frequently in the bookshop and had a flirtatious, but never financially binding, relationship. By years end the book made an appearance on many best-of lists, but it still remained a book I always intended to read. Many a reader can read

This is gorgeous nature writing and it is also a graceful memoir about bereavement. Helen Macdonald has managed to blend the two genres beautifully. When Helen's father died, her grief was so great that she decided to adopt a goshawk. Helen had loved hawks since childhood and had studied falconry, but this was her first time trying to train a goshawk. In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecoats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and

This is probably a decent book and several of my smarty-farty friends have read it, but we all know I'm a moron and every time it is spammed recommended to me on my feed by the powers that be here at Goodreads I can only picture this . . . . ^^^^^Now that book I would totally read.

I certainly would not want to dissuade anyone from reading H is for Hawk, Cambridge professor Helen Macdonald's moving memoir of coping with the loss of her photojournalist father. Her twin academic disciplines of English and ornithology (specifically, falconry) provide the source of her occasionally gorgeous prose as she recounts her attempt at raising a goshawk. If she'd focused more on herself, her birding, and her subsequent descent into near-madness, this would've been a solid four-star

This review first appeared on my blog, Shoulda Coulda Woulda Books.And so you run towards those little shots of fate, where the world turns. That is the lure, that is why we lose ourselves, when powerless from hurt and grief, in drugs or gambling or drink; in addictions that collar the broken soul and shake it like a dog. I had found my addiction on that day out with Mabel. It was ruinous, in a way, as if Id taken a needle and shot myself with heroin. I had taken a flight to a place from which I

Heres a word. Bereavement. Or Bereaved. Bereft. Its from the Old English bereafian, meaning to deprive of, take away, seize, rob.Heres another word: raptor, meaning bird of prey. From the Latin raptor, meaning robber, from rapere meaning seize. Rob. Seize.Heres another word: Captivating. H is for Hawk stole me, holding me captive with its madness and love. Part claustrophobic memoir of grief, part luminous tribute to the sport of falconry, Helen Macdonalds book is brilliant and tense. It is a