This important new edition adopts the text of the first British edition of the novel, published in London on 11 March 1937. A comprehensive introduction details the lengthy process of the composition and revision of the novel, and its subsequent publication history.[...]
Every day, the Birdman performs the same ritual: he climbs out onto his window ledge to see if he can manage to kill himself and never does. The Birdman is a member of a loose-knit group of failed suicides, each pursuing absurd ways to end their lives: one saving up lost-dog reward money to buy enou[...]