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First English-language edition publ. Farrar Straus & Giroux A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories is a 1973 book of short stories written by Isaac Bashevis Singer.It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. [1]
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It uses text, dialogue and poetry. [4] The book is narrated from rapidly alternating perspectives: the Dad, the Boys, and Crow—a human-sized bird that can speak, "equal parts babysitter, philosopher and therapist" to the family. [5] [6] The title refers to a poem by Emily Dickinson, ""Hope" is the thing with feathers". [7]
In Greek and Roman mythology, Corone (Ancient Greek: Κορώνη, romanized: Korṓnē, lit. 'crow' [1] pronounced [korɔ̌ːnɛː]) is a young woman who attracted the attention of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and was saved by Athena, the goddess of wisdom.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a hybrid of prose and poetic styles about a crow who visits a grieving family of a Ted Hughes scholar and his two young boys. [17] It draws heavily upon Hughes's Crow: From the Life and Songs of Crow and its title is derived from Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers".
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All should beware of actors and newcomers, especially "an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey."
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