Birdy Author:William Wharton The story of a guy named Birdy and his buddy Al -- their amazing adventures in a suburb of Philadelphia before World War II, and the very different passions that fire their spirits. While Al lifts weights and picks up girls, Birdy -- a mechanical genius, flight-obsessed lunatic, canary breeder, discoverer of a new way of making love - dreams of ... more »flying, a dream that becomes as real and compelling as your own. Hailed by reviewers everywhere as the most hypnotically readable novel of the year, BIRDY is about friendship and family, dreaming and surviving, love and war, madness and beauty, and most of all, birdness. Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale -- one that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane.« less