Tuco and the Scattershot World - A Life with Birds

"Both a biography of an irreverent African Grey parrot--given to asking "Whaddya know?" and announcing "Party time!"--and an exploration of the history of birds/ dinosaurs, the relationships between humans and birds, our notions of language and intelligence, and our tendency to "other" anything that is different from us, Tuco also describes Brett's own painful experience of being othered as an androgyne. Provocative, profound, hilarious, and moving, Tuco is most of all the extraordinary story of Brett's decades-long relationship with this singular bird, what Brett calls "a story we made together."--

About the author

Brian Brett is the author of Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, which won the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and Uproar’s Your Only Music, a Globe and Mail Book of the Year. He has also written numerous books of poetry and fiction. He lives with his family on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Brett, Brian Brett, Brett Brian
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781771640633
• ISBN: 978-1-77164-063-3
• Weight: 637 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; NATURE / Animals / Birds, NATURE / Essays, PETS / Birds, Memoirs, Wildlife: birds & birdwatching, Social and ethical issues, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Animal life stories, Birds, Including Cage Birds, As Pets, Ethology and animal behaviour, Popular philosophy: Meaning of life / finding sense in life, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs