The Resource The bird market of Paris : a memoir, Nikki Moustaki
The bird market of Paris : a memoir, Nikki Moustaki
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The item The bird market of Paris : a memoir, Nikki Moustaki represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The bird market of Paris : a memoir, Nikki Moustaki represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "An avian expert and poet shares a true story of beloved birds, a remarkable grandfather, a bad-girl youth--and an astonishing redemption. Nikki Moustaki, author of The Bird Market of Paris, grew up in 1980s Miami, the only child of parents who worked, played, and traveled for luxury sports car dealerships. At home, her doting grandmother cooked for and fed her, but it was her grandfather--an evening-gown designer, riveting storyteller, and bird expert--who was her mentor and dearest companion. Like her grandfather, Nikki fell hard for birds. 'Birds filled my childhood,' she writes, 'as blue filled the sky.' Her grandfather showed her how to hypnotize chickens, sneak up on pigeons, and handle baby birds. He gave her a white dove to release for luck on each birthday. And he urged her to, someday, visit the bird market of Paris. But by the time Nikki graduated from college and moved to New York City, she was succumbing to alcohol and increasingly unable to care for her flock. When her grandfather died, guilt-ridden Nikki drank even more. In a last-ditch effort to honor her grandfather, she flew to France hoping to visit the bird market of Paris to release a white dove. Instead, something astonishing happened there that saved Nikki's life"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 242 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805096514
- Label
- The bird market of Paris : a memoir
- Title
- The bird market of Paris
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Nikki Moustaki
- Subject
-
- Americans -- France | Paris -- Biography
- Cage birds -- France | Paris
- Markets -- France | Paris
- Moustaki, Nikki, 1970- -- Childhood and youth
- Moustaki, Nikki, 1970- -- Family
- Alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Redemption
- Women authors, American -- Biography
- Young women -- France | Paris -- Biography
- Moustaki, Nikki, 1970- -- Travel -- France | Paris
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "An avian expert and poet shares a true story of beloved birds, a remarkable grandfather, a bad-girl youth--and an astonishing redemption. Nikki Moustaki, author of The Bird Market of Paris, grew up in 1980s Miami, the only child of parents who worked, played, and traveled for luxury sports car dealerships. At home, her doting grandmother cooked for and fed her, but it was her grandfather--an evening-gown designer, riveting storyteller, and bird expert--who was her mentor and dearest companion. Like her grandfather, Nikki fell hard for birds. 'Birds filled my childhood,' she writes, 'as blue filled the sky.' Her grandfather showed her how to hypnotize chickens, sneak up on pigeons, and handle baby birds. He gave her a white dove to release for luck on each birthday. And he urged her to, someday, visit the bird market of Paris. But by the time Nikki graduated from college and moved to New York City, she was succumbing to alcohol and increasingly unable to care for her flock. When her grandfather died, guilt-ridden Nikki drank even more. In a last-ditch effort to honor her grandfather, she flew to France hoping to visit the bird market of Paris to release a white dove. Instead, something astonishing happened there that saved Nikki's life"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Moustaki, Nikki
- Dewey number
- 810.9/9287
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- CT275.M673
- LC item number
- A3 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Moustaki, Nikki
- Moustaki, Nikki
- Moustaki, Nikki
- Americans
- Young women
- Cage birds
- Markets
- Redemption
- Alcoholics
- Women authors, American
- Label
- The bird market of Paris : a memoir, Nikki Moustaki
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 242 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805096514
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014012310
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn876370915
- Label
- The bird market of Paris : a memoir, Nikki Moustaki
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 242 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805096514
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014012310
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn876370915
Subject
- Americans -- France | Paris -- Biography
- Cage birds -- France | Paris
- Markets -- France | Paris
- Moustaki, Nikki, 1970- -- Childhood and youth
- Moustaki, Nikki, 1970- -- Family
- Alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Redemption
- Women authors, American -- Biography
- Young women -- France | Paris -- Biography
- Moustaki, Nikki, 1970- -- Travel -- France | Paris
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