{"product_id":"broken-wing","title":"Broken Wing","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBroken Wing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDavid Budbill\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780996267632\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGreen Writers Pr\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e213\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBroken Wing \u003c\/em\u003eis the story of one man's love for birds and efforts to save a rusty blackbird that can't fly south for the winter. Set in the remote mountains to the north, \u003cem\u003eBroken Wing \u003c\/em\u003eis an allegorical tale about a rusty blackbird with a broken wing who can't fly and therefore is trapped in the inhospitable north country for the winter, and a man, known only as The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains, who lives a solitary life of nurturing attentiveness, simple kindness, and passionate emotional intensity. \u003cem\u003eBroken Wing \u003c\/em\u003eis the story of how these two different lives come together. A story of loneliness, survival, tenacity, and will, \u003cem\u003eBroken Wing \u003c\/em\u003eis also about music and race and what it is like to be a minority in a strange place. A story of the natural world and the wonder of birds' lives, and of one man's deep connection to them, \u003cem\u003eBroken Wing \u003c\/em\u003ebecomes a song of praise for the cycle of the seasons and a meditation on the reality of dreams and the dreamlike quality of reality. It is also the story of one individual black man told from outside the usual stereotypes about African-American males, which is a perspective seldom seen in America literature. Told with simple, dignified prose \u003cem\u003eBroken Wing \u003c\/em\u003etakes on the timeless, mythic aura of a folktale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Green Writers Pr","offers":[{"title":"Broken Wing | David Budbill | Paperback | 9780996267632 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1670362","offer_id":48310449864856,"sku":"1670362","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Broken Wing | David Budbill | Paperback | 9780996267632 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks C 1758139","offer_id":49178436960408,"sku":"1758139","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71M8BpCbDrL.jpg?v=1771962485","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/broken-wing","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}