Birdy
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Author:
William Wharton
Year: 1978
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394425696
Comments:
One of our all-time favorites. Fred won the 1980 American Book Award for Jacket Design for Birdy, receiving a Louise Nevelson Sculpture prize. Birdy won the U.S. National Book Award in category First Novel and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1980. In 1984, Birdy was adapted as a film of the same name, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage.