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Pigeon feathers

From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("Witches of Eastwick," "Rabbit Run"), comes the story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living in the soaring beauty of one of nature's simplest creations. A family returns to life on a farm and finds some answers to the paradox of living.

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  • "John Updike's Pigeon feathers"
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  • "From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("Witches of Eastwick," "Rabbit Run"), comes the story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living in the soaring beauty of one of nature's simplest creations. A family returns to life on a farm and finds some answers to the paradox of living."@en
  • "A young man searches through the questions of life and death."@en
  • "A young farm boy searches for a way to keep his soul alive forever. Along the way, he questions the validity of theological explanations concerning heaven and earth."
  • "Summary: Together with his parents and grandmother, l6-year-old David returns to the family farm where his grandfather is buried. It is an adjustment for all of them, but in David it awakens questions concerning his own mortality. Though longing for an affirmative answer when he asks whether there is life after death, neither his church-going father, nor his more pantheistic mother can give him the certainty he requires to find peace of mind. Even the local minister gets annoyed when the youngster persistently asks where the soul will be between death and the Day of Judgement, while his grandmother is certain that, when the time comes, she will be reunited with her late husband. One day David is asked to shoot the wild pigeons that are making a mess in the barn and, ironically, it is in the aftermath of their death that he finds his answer. An adaptation of a short story by John Updike."
  • "Summary: The story of a young man's search through the questions of live and death and the discovery of living in the country after the hectic life in the city."
  • "A family returns to life on a farm and finds some answers to the paradox of living. The son, a young man, is having a crisis of faith when he begins to question the meaning of death. In searching through the questions of life and death, he discovers the wonder of living in the soaring beauty of one of nature's simplest creations."@en
  • "Young David is troubled when his parents and his minister are unable to provide assurances about life after death and he vents his anger by shooting pigeons on his family's farm. While burying the pigeons, David comes to believe that the God who made such worthless, yet beautiful, birds would not let his soul die forever."@en

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  • "Pigeon feathers"
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