HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Summary
More Content
More by this author
White, Chris, 1959- author.
Subjects
Anesthesiologists -- Fiction.
Bird watchers -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Compulsive behavior -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
White, Chris, 1959- author.
by title:
The life list of Adr...
MARC Display
The life list of Adrian Mandrick : a novel / Chris White.
by
White, Chris, 1959- author.
New York : Touchstone, 2018.
Subjects
Anesthesiologists -- Fiction.
Bird watchers -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Compulsive behavior -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781501174308 (hardback) :
1501174304 (hardback)
Description:
274 pages : map ; 23 cm
Edition:
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"His for Hawk meets Grief Is the Thing with Feathers in this evocative debut novel about a pill-popping anesthesiologist and avid birder who embarks on a quest to find one of the world's rarest species, allowing nothing to get in his way--until he's forced to confront his obsessions and what they've cost him. Anesthesiologist Adrian Mandrick is filled with contradictory impulses. He wants to be a good husband to his wife and a good father to his children; he wants to forgive his once-beloved mother for the crime she committed and the long lost father who accused her. But when he receives a call from his mother after years of silence, he takes solace in the very pain medication he prescribes, spiraling downward into addiction. His sole source of true comfort is his "life list"--The all-encompassing record of the 863 bird species he's spotted and identified. His is the third longest list in all of North America. But when Henry Lassiter, the legendary birder who held the region's second longest list, dies suddenly, Adrian seizes the opportunity to make his way to the very top. A desperate search for the extremely rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker eventually leaves him stranded in the thick swamplands of Florida's panhandle, where he is forced to confront his past and present failures, to reflect on what his obsessions and addictions have cost him, and to question what is truly important in his life. Combining wry humor and mystery with environmental adventure, The Life List of Adrian Mandrick is a fast-paced, engaging story that heralds the arrival of a new literary talent"--
Copy/Holding information
No Item Information
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.