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Item Details
| Title:
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THE BIRD MARKET OF PARIS
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| By: |
Nikki Moustaki |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0805096515 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780805096514 |
| Publisher: |
HENRY HOLT & COMPANY INC |
| Pub. date: |
27 February, 2015 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
The author grew up in 1980s Miami, the only child of parents who worked, played, and travelled for luxury sports car dealerships. At home, her grandmother cooked for and fed her, but it was her grandfather - an evening-gown designer, storyteller, and bird expert - who was her mentor and dearest companion. This book tells her story. |
| Synopsis: |
Nikki Moustaki, author of The Bird Market of Paris, grew up in 1980s Miami, the only child of parents who worked, played, and travelled for luxury sports car dealerships. At home, her doting grandmother cooked for and fed her, but it was her grandfather - an evening-gown designer, riveting storyteller, and bird expert - who was her mentor and dearest companion. Like her grandfather, Nikki fell hard for birds. "Birds filled my childhood," she writes, "as blue filled the sky." Her grandfather showed her how to hypnotize chickens, sneak up on pigeons, and handle baby birds. He gave her a white dove to release for luck on each birthday. And he urged her to, someday, visit the bird market of Paris. But by the time Nikki graduated from college and moved to New York City, she was succumbing to alcohol and increasingly unable to care for her flock. When her grandfather died, guilt-ridden Nikki drank even more. In a last-ditch effort to honour her grandfather, she flew to France hoping to visit the bird market of Paris to release a white dove. Instead, something astonishing happened there that saved Nikki's life. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Henry Holt & Company Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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