1986-88 THE CORMORANT Dark Fiction Non-Fiction Novel by Stephen Gregory

Description: 1986-88 THE CORMORANT Dark Fiction Non-Fiction Novel by Stephen Gregory One of its inner front cover pages torn (was an X library copy) and some handwritten numbers on its first pages (all is shown) rest of the book is intact and in very good shape. "The cormorant had been left to me and my wife in the will of my uncle. It was on one of Uncle lan's rare winter journeys on his wooden river boat that he came across the cormorant. The cormorant, a first-year bird, was drowning. It had spread its wings in an attempt to remain afloat a little longer, but soon it was waterlogged, and the swirling tide simply turned it and stirred it, and the creeping cold was deep in the bones of the young bird.There was oil on its throat and in its face. But it was a tough, young creature. It responded to lan's ministrations, his cleaning and feeding. By the spring, it was as arrogant and vicious and unpredictable as any first-year cormorant.One evening in June, Uncle lan collapsed onto the floor of the boat, he gripped at his seizing chest and struck his head on the petrol tank. And, as he lay convulsing for just a few seconds, the cormorant sat and watched. Only the slow blinking of its eyes showed that any muscle stirred in its green-black frame. Jan was dead. And his cheeks were pitted from the blows of the cormorant's beak. His lips were torn. The tender tissues of his gums were split. One eye remained intact. This was the bird that we inherited." Thank you -

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