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T.H. White: When Writers Become Bad Falconers

10,000 Birds

When she was eight, Macdonald read The Goshawk and was horrified; when she read it again after her father’s death, she somehow managed to admire and sympathize with the author, despite his reprehensible treatment of his bird. Spoiler: the hawk ends up like the fish, not the whale. This, excuse me, is b t.

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