Pigeons
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780641985881 (0641985886)
Publish date: October 28th 2006
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages no: 239
Edition language: English
Interesting but not gripping. I wish there were half stars, because this book falls somewhere between 2 & 3 for me. The author is more interested in the people than the birds. I was hoping for more about the birds. I did learn that pigeons aren't nearly the vermin we are taught to think of them as.
At the close of the book, Blechman acknowledges that when he began, he was more interested in writing about people obsessed with pigeons than the pigeons themselves. This was an interesting confirmation of my impression that pigeons were a secondary focus pretending to be primary. Yes, the text itse...
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