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Reviewed on April 1, 2017 | arts and humanities
Haupt (The Urban Bestiary) intertwines the story of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's starling with her own story of living with one of America's most hated birds, the starling. Mozart discovered his bird in a 1780s Vienna pet shop singing a tune from his latest concerto; when it died, he arranged an elaborate ceremony complete with dramatic elegy. This book is part history (the origin of North American starlings...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
