The Snow Goose
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 14th aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the lonely marshes of the Essex coast, where the great grey birds wheel and cry against a leaden sky, a reclusive hunchbacked painter named Philip Rhayader finds an unexpected connection to the world when a young girl brings him a wounded snow goose — and in nursing it back to health, sets in motion a tale of quiet devotion, sacrifice, and transcendent beauty. Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose, first published in 1941, is a deceptively brief yet emotionally devastating novella that weaves the miracle of Dunkirk into a timeless parable of human longing and selfless love, chronicling how two outcasts — a man shunned for his deformity and a wild bird out of place in the world — find in each other a fleeting but luminous grace. Gallico, a master of spare, lyrical prose, constructs his narrative with the precision of a poet, each sentence carrying the weight of the vast, windswept landscape he so vividly renders. The story transcends its wartime setting to argue something quietly radical: that love, in its purest form, asks nothing in return and leaves those it touches forever changed. A work of profound emotional economy, The Snow Goose has endured for decades as one of the most affecting short works in twentieth-century English literature — and its final, haunting image is one that, once encountered, refuses to leave the imagination.
Author: Paul Gallico
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, Michael Joseph Ltd. (London) / Wyatt & Watts Pty. Ltd. (Melbourne)
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: 14th aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the lonely marshes of the Essex coast, where the great grey birds wheel and cry against a leaden sky, a reclusive hunchbacked painter named Philip Rhayader finds an unexpected connection to the world when a young girl brings him a wounded snow goose — and in nursing it back to health, sets in motion a tale of quiet devotion, sacrifice, and transcendent beauty. Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose, first published in 1941, is a deceptively brief yet emotionally devastating novella that weaves the miracle of Dunkirk into a timeless parable of human longing and selfless love, chronicling how two outcasts — a man shunned for his deformity and a wild bird out of place in the world — find in each other a fleeting but luminous grace. Gallico, a master of spare, lyrical prose, constructs his narrative with the precision of a poet, each sentence carrying the weight of the vast, windswept landscape he so vividly renders. The story transcends its wartime setting to argue something quietly radical: that love, in its purest form, asks nothing in return and leaves those it touches forever changed. A work of profound emotional economy, The Snow Goose has endured for decades as one of the most affecting short works in twentieth-century English literature — and its final, haunting image is one that, once encountered, refuses to leave the imagination.