"An inspired, beautiful and absorbing account of a woman battling griefwith a goshawk. . . . Writing with breathless urgency . . . Macdonald broadens her scope well beyond herself to focus on the antagonism between people and the environment. Whether you call this a personal story or nature writing, it's poignant, thoughtful and movingand likely to become a classic in either genre." Kirkus Reviews (starred)
" H is for Hawk is a work of great spirit and wonder, illuminated equally by terror and desire. Each beautiful sentence is capable of taking a reader’s breath. The book is built of feather and bone, intelligence and blood, and a vulnerability so profound as to conjure that vulnerability’s shadow, which is the great power of honesty. It is not just a definitive work on falconry; it is a definitive work on humanity, and all that can and cannot be possessed." Rick Bass
"A lovely touching book about a young woman grieving over the death of her father becoming rejuvenated by training one of the roughest, most difficult creatures in the heavens, the goshawk." Jim Harrison
"Rich with the poetry of ideation, the narrative flows through the author’s deeply textured story of personal loss like a mountain wind, swirling seamlessly through fields of literature, biology, natural history, and the art of hunting with hawks. Readers might do well to absorb this book a bite at a timebut be prepared for a full meal." Lynn Schooler
"In this elegant synthesis of memoir and literary sleuthing . . . Macdonald describes in beautiful, thoughtful prose how she comes to terms with death in new and startling ways." Publishers Weekly
"A dazzling piece of work: deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love . . . a deeply human work shot through, like cloth of gold, with intelligence and compassionan exemplar of the mysterious alchemy by which suffering can be transmuted into beauty. I will be surprised if a better book than H is for Hawk is published this year." Melissa Harrison, Financial Times
"More than any other writer I know, including her beloved [T.H.] White, Macdonald is able to summon the mental world of a bird of prey . . . she extends the boundaries of nature writing. As a naturalist she has somehow acquired her bird's laser-like visual acuity. As a writer she combines a lexicographer's pleasure in words as carefully curated objects with an inventive passion for new words or for ways of releasing fresh effects from the old stock. . . . Macdonald looks set to revive the genre." Mark Cocker, Guardian
"A talon-sharp memoir that will thrill and chill you to the bone . . . Macdonald has just the right blend of the scientist and the poet, of observing on the one hand and feeling on the other." Craig Brown, Daily Mail
"What [Macdonald] has achieved is a very rare thing in literaturea completely realistic account of a human relationship with animal consciousness. . . . Her training of Mabel has the suspense and tension of the here and now. You are gripped by the slightest movement, by the turn of every feather. It is a soaring performance and Mabel is the star." John Carey, Sunday Times
"A well-wrought book, one part memoir, one part gorgeous evocation of the natural world and one part literary meditation . . . lit with flashes of grace, a grace that sweeps down to the reader to hold her wrist tight with beautiful, terrible claws. The discovery of the season." Erica Wagner, Economist
"The magnificent H is for Hawk [has] grabbed me by its talons . . . [it’s] nature writing, but not as you know it. Astounding." Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller
"It sings. I couldn’t stop reading." Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother
"This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration: elegy for a father lost, celebration of a hawk found - and in the finding also a celebration of countryside, forbears of one kind and another, life-in-death. At a time of very distinguished writing about the relationship between human kind and the environment, it is immediately pre-eminent." Andrew Motion, author of In the Blood
"A deep, dark work of terrible beauty that will open fissures in the stoniest heart. . . . Macdonald is a survivor . . . she has produced one of the most eloquent accounts of bereavement you could hope to read . . . A grief memoir with wings." The Bookseller
"A book made from the heart that goes to the heart . . . It combines old and new nature and human nature with great originality. No one who has looked up to see a bird of prey cross the sky could read it and not have their life shifted." Tim Dee, author of The Running Sky
"The most magical book I have ever read." Olivia Laing, author of The Trip to Echo Springs
When Helen Macdonald’s father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconerHelen had been captivated by hawks since childhoodshe’d never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk’s fierce and feral anger mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Sword and the Stone author T.H. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her journey into Mabel’s world. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald’s humanity.
By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement; a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast; and the story of an eccentric falconer and legendary writer. Weaving together obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history, H is for Hawk is a distinctive, surprising blend of nature writing and memoir from a very gifted writer.
该内容有TB 光速书店友情提供,By Lightbookstore onTB
Contents
PART I
1. Patience
2. Lost
3. Small worlds
4. Mr White
5. Holding tight
6. The box of stars
7. Invisibility
8. The Rembrandt interior
9. The rite of passage
10. Darkness
11. Leaving home
12. Outlaws
13. Alice, falling
14. The line
15. For whom the bell
16. Rain
17. Heat
PART II
18. Flying free
19. Extinction
20. Hiding
21. Fear
22. Apple Day
23. Memorial
24. Drugs
25. Magical places
26. The flight of time
27. The new world
28. Winter histories
29. Enter spring
30. The moving earth
Postscript
Notes
Acknowledgements
Copyright
《剑桥批评:中国与世界》内容简介:本书起源于但并不局限于2017年的清华会议。从2004年三峡会议开始,相同主题的会议先后于2008年
本书记载了三十三位影响艺术史发展的文艺复兴时期意大利的艺术家们的点点滴滴。正如作者自己所称,从长辈的叙述中,从大师们的子
你不可在这童子身上动手-劳拉比回忆录 内容简介 这本书不是传统意义上的自传。在这本书中,你不会读到我当拉比的44年,不会读到从特拉维夫低收入区的拉比成长为以色列...
西乡隆盛-改变日本历史的人 本书特色 这个人,登场于动乱时期,看到了日本遥远的将来;这个人,将日本导向了革命,改变了历史轨迹;这个人,是明治维新的*大功臣,却又...
《每天一堂销售课(白金珍藏版)》内容简介:销售是个技术活儿,它拼的不仅是产品,更需要高超的沟通技巧与营销技巧。《每天一堂销
可怕的四川人 内容简介 四川,古称“蜀”,“蜀”与“闽”相似,素有“蜀闽同风”之说。于是,四川自有“在川一只虫”之言。那么,四川人又是如何破茧成蝶,化虫为龙的呢...
共和国之路-孙中山传-中国当代优秀传记作家文库 本书特色 本书以大量鲜为人知的史料,为21世纪的广大读者还原了一个20初期为唤醒中国而终生奋斗的伟人形象,再现了...
戴笠:黑色特工之王的覆灭 本书特色 “戴老板”、“暗杀王”、“间谍王”、“蒋介石的佩剑”…… 对于他的种种记载,可以说是扑朔迷离.那么,他的真实面部究竟为何?本...
旷世大儒 : 朱熹 内容简介 朱熹,字元晦,又字仲晦,晚年自号晦庵、晦翁,别称紫阳。生于公元1130年(宋高宗建炎四年)农历九月十五日,江西婺源人。朱熹的父亲名...
我与吴祖光 本书特色 ◎她是我的妻子,我曾鼓励过她识字、读书,但是在短短的十几年取得这样丰硕的成果,实在是我始料不及的,深深感到这是个“异数”,新凤霞大可列入行...
《界限:刚刚好的关系智慧》内容简介:界限,是关系的灵魂。现实生活中,很多人缺乏“界限感”,人际交往产生的大多数负面情绪都源
达·芬奇 本书特色 《达·芬奇》是一本翻译图书,以图文并茂的方式介绍文艺复兴时期意大利著名画家达芬奇的绘画创作,并对其在雕塑、解剖学及其他发明创造领域取得的成就...
《一幅画开启的世界》内容简介:在《一幅画开启的世界》中,日本国宝级动画电影大师、吉卜力三驾马车之一髙畑勋,凭着六十多年来对
横竖是水可以相通 内容简介 《横坚是水可以相通》包括:前度李郎今安在;梦里寻他千百度;隔岸犹叹前尘事;多情未必真豪杰。横竖是水可以相通 目录 **辑 前度刘郎今...
黄飞鸿传略 内容简介 一代武学宗师,演绎了一段段惩奸除恶的传奇。一身出色的醒狮技艺,舞动着一次次灵动而喜庆的记忆。一名无私授徒的严师,培育了一个个蜚声远近的杰出...
历史上最有争议的宰相 本书特色 没有争议,不成历史:这也是历史的魅力所在,它能不断地吸引着人们去探索一个个被假象掩盖了的真相,从而品味历史留给我们的启示...
仁宣盛世-明仁宗洪熙 明宣宗宣德 本书特色 张明林编著的《仁宣盛世》内容介绍:在北京昌平天寿山西峰之下,有一座建于1426年的陵墓,它是明十三陵中的一座...
《宪法学说(修订译本)》内容简介:《宪法学说》从公法角度对魏玛宪法及其所依托的议会民主制作了细致剖析,既是法制思想史,又是
在这本自传中,美籍波兰钢琴家鲁宾斯坦回顾了自己从琴童到优秀钢琴家的成长过程。读伟人的传记,尤其是自传,往往给人以丰富的知
鲁迅美术年谱 本书特色 ★ 16开精装毛边本,国家图书馆出版社2010年6月1版1印★ 鲁迅一生的美术活动在中国美术史上具有重要的位置,特别是对中国版画事业的发...