The Bird Is Gone

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The Bird Is Gone: A Manifesto
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Author Stephen Graham Jones
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Fiction Collective 2
Publication date
August 1, 2003
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages175 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN 1573661090 (first edition, paperback)
Preceded by All The Beautiful Sinners  
Followed by Bleed Into Me  

The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto is a murder mystery by Stephen Graham Jones. It was published in 2003 by Fiction Collective 2. The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto is Jones' third novel. [1]

Awards

The novel won the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction. [2]

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References

  1. Jones, Stephen Graham (2003). The Bird Is Gone: A Manifesto. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
  2. IndependentPublisher.com