{"product_id":"life-with-birds-a-suburban-lyric-paperback","title":"Life with Birds: a suburban lyric - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBronwyn Rennex\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA luminous account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a war story about heroism or healing trauma, but an attempt to fill the gaps in a family story in the wake of the Vietnam War and re-animate a father never really known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife with Birds invests in the small scale, the domestic and the ordinary as an overlooked part of Australian military history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBronwyn Rennex has used whatever materials she could find in order to attempt to retrieve her father - family stories, love letters, legal documents, birds - and the gaps between these documents form perhaps the most important part of this story: a failure that describes a loss. Rather than describing her mother's grief at her father's death, Rennex uses love letters and her mother's written claim for a war widow's pension to map the shape of her mother's love and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in fragments and mixing speculation, imagination and guesswork, the narrative is personal, angry, political and also funny, balancing a desire for some form of testimony with a commitment to questioning how we talk about war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a poignant and compelling account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53193108095283,"sku":"9780645247978","price":35.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2aoFIHVWVI9780645247978.webp?v=1775109034","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/life-with-birds-a-suburban-lyric-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}