Author

Publication

2009 - Caravel Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

49,250 words, Guess

Page Count

197 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3558.I4435 L672 2009

Description

In 1949, Jake Hamrick, a 19-year-old who has been obsessed since childhood with the ivory-billed woodpecker, leaves Illinois for Louisiana accompanied by Robin, his tiny girlfriend. They search in the bayous where the bird was last reported, and Robin, as obsessed as Jake, dresses like the bird, smearing her naked body with white clay, wearing a cloak of black crow feathers, her hair in a red crest. Local hunters pursue Robin and Jake deep into the bayous, where they are harbored by Robert, an ancient black man.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

Other Editions

  • The Lord God bird: a novellaCaravel Books2009-01-01

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