TY - BOOK AU - McCarthy,Mary TI - Birds of America SN - 0151127700 PY - 1971/// CY - New York PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. KW - American fiction KW - Mothers and sons KW - Fiction N1 - With hard-and super cover N2 - In 1964, a young man arrives in France to do his junior year at the Sorbonne. Although he endeavors to live his daily student life according to the laws of harmony and inner consistency, what results is disaster upon disaster and frustrated clashes with the establishment, as he becomes an unwilling witness to the changes in society and its values and to the decline in the quality of life ER -