First paperback edition. An exploration of the inability of language to account for thought andfeeling <strong>Imago Bird</strong> is also an inventive and witt... » 

First paperback edition. An exploration of the inability of language to account for thought andfeeling Imago Bird is also an inventive and witty comingofage story.Eighteenyearold Bert highly intelligent and nephew to the prime minister ofEngland tries to make sense of the adult world around him a mix of politicspop stars and television personalities while struggling with a constantstammer and questions about the relationship between the interior and exteriorworld. Nicholas Mosley is the author of a dozen novels and half a dozen works ofnonfiction including a biography of his father Sir Oswald Mosley thenotorious leader of the British fascist party. Two of his novels Accident andImpossible Object have been made into films. He lives in London with his wife. First U.S. edition by Dalkey Archive 89. «