In Bird's Eye
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Bird also thinks of the lovely young lady he met
there. They skied together during the
day, and dined and danced and celebrated all night. He was, at first, attracted to her green eyes, green like fresh
cut nurtured green grass. Then, to her
soft mixture of light and dark brown hair that swept matte flat across the
front top of her head from left to right, seemingly almost as one beautiful
piece but then falling into random order onto her delicate yet firm shoulders
not as individual strands but rather as a countable number of impossibly
coordinated sets curling and moving in perfectly controlled chaos. Ultimately, however, it was her sweet smile,
that when she looked into Bird’s eyes said, “Everything’s OK, I’m having fun.”
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About the Book
In Bird’s Eye is a story about someone
who is filled with both ability to get things done and self-doubt.
The Hero is as much hindered by himself as he is
with slogans and sayings which he doesn’t quite get and allows himself and his thinking to be somewhat controlled
by them.
The main character has what it takes to become
successful, and through a series of flashbacks, the reader is shown glimpses of
his attitude, his life, and his conflicts--both regarding himself, others, and
society.
Der Bogosian ultimately portrays a fun, easy to
read, human element story, but one of internal struggle more than traditional
external conflict.
Although there are many various scenes, it all comes
together near the end with The Duel with
the Devil, and especially a trial scene against Keats Gegenschein who is
the Hero himself representative of society.
Some readers have termed the Gegenschein trial as
the ‘summit climb’ to the book’s ‘approach.’
Another said that some of the scenes seem to have echoes as diverse as
Goethe’s “Faust.” Most readers comment
that In Bird’s Eye is a page-turner
as well as an escape. Almost all say
that it is a worthwhile read.
About the Author
In Bird’s Eye is Gregory Der Bogosian’s
first published story. Born in
Haverhill, Massachusetts, U.S.A., he graduated from Bentley College in Waltham,
Massachusetts where he was introduced to Classical American and European literature
and continued reading them over the next 15 years.
One day, he was to meet his former German language
teacher in Salzburg, Austria during a snowboarding trip, but she failed to
show. With time on his hands, he sat
down with paper and pen overlooking the view of the Alps and was surprised to
find himself developing the character, voice, tone and theme that would later
become In Bird’s Eye.
Der Bogosian is an Armenian American. Currently, he is a VP of his family business
in Merrimac, Massachusetts. He studies
and speaks conversational German, and travels yearly throughout the European
Alpine region.