- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books (Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 076530337X
- ISBN-13: 978-0765303370
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,754,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
O'Leary's Best
31 Dec 2001
Format:Hardcover
If you don't have a brother, you'll wish you did by the time you are done reading The Impossible Bird -- a profound meditation on familial love wrapped in an intriguing Science Fiction plot. O'Leary's imagination and writing have never been more vibrant. Door Number 3 and The Gift are both great books, but this one blows them both away. I can't imagine there will be too many better novels published in 2002. Definitely worth checking out!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Flying High
28 Mar 2002
Format:Hardcover
Patrick O'Leary's THE IMPOSSIBLE BIRD rings all the great bells--betrayal, death, forgiveness, and absolution. Lyrical intensity intertwines the polar opposites of Kafkaesque absurdity with the roots of religious thought; the result is Truth, which strikes deep.
The above is a quote of mine, which will appear on the paperback edition. I wanted to add it to this forum.
THE IMPOSSIBLE BIRD is a wonderful book. I can't praise it enough. O'Leary's work is always strange, always original. I think that this is his best novel yet.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Remarkable science fiction
4 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback
I always brag that I know the end of a book within the first 20 pages -- because there is little that hasn't already been used as a plot device. I must say, I certainly did not see this one coming! I found this story very original and well written. Two brothers, close in childhood but distant as adults, suddenly find that teams of people are demanding information about their whereabouts, threatening death, kidnapping, etc. And those people don't seem to stay dead when killed. Also, we are given hints that something quit strange happened in South America to one of the brothers -- something involving a tribal chief, and maybe a hummingbird. OK, that is all I'll tell. Everything else, you have to get from the book. Read it! It's pretty good!
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