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What Is Left the Daughter (2010)
by Howard Norman
Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books— The Bird Artist , The Museum Guard , and The Haunting of L —in this erotically charged and morally complex story. Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is... (learn more about this book)
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My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations (Directions) (2004)
by Howard Norman
An evocative portrait of the landscape and eccentric characters who have shaped his literary work by the critically acclaimed author of The Bird Artist and The Northern Lights captures the world of Nova Scotia in a collection of folklore, poetry, reflections, anecdotes, stories, and essays. (learn more about this book)
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The Haunting of L. (2002)
by Howard Norman
From the bestselling author of The Bird Artist, the final book in his Canadian trilogy (with The Bird Artist and The Museum Guard): a novel about spirit photographs, adultery, and murder It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist Vienna Linn, in... (learn more about this book)
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The Chauffeur: Stories (2002)
by Howard Norman
Bringing together eight previously published stories the bestselling author of The Bird Artist explores the lives of a range of characters who share a sense of loneliness and obsession. In the title story Tokyo-born Mrs. Moro is driven every day by her chauffeur, Tuttle Albers, so that she can... (learn more about this book)
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Trickster and the Fainting Birds (1999)
by Howard Norman
With spare grace and lively wit, acclaimed author Howard Norman chronicles the hilarious antics of a provocative troublemaker. Whether cheating in a sleepwalking contest, teaching the shut-eye dance to ducks, or halting a wedding by transforming the groom into a kingfisher, Trickster sets the... (learn more about this book)
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The Museum Guard (1998)
by Howard Norman
Orphaned by a zeppelin crash at age nine, DeFoe Russet was raised in a Halifax, Nova Scotia, hotel by his magnetic uncle Edward. Now thirty, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. He and his uncle disturb the silence of the museum with heated conversations that... (learn more about this book)
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The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese (1997)
And Other Tales of the Far North
by Howard Norman
Based on decades of research and extended collaboration with Inuit storytellers, award-winning author Howard Norman’s masterful retellings of ten Inuit tales invite readers on a unique story--journey from Siberia and Alaska to the Canadian Arctic and Greenland. Dramatic illustrations inspired by... (learn more about this book)
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The Bird Artist (1994)
by Howard Norman
Howard Norman's The Bird Artist , the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered... (learn more about this book)
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How Glooskap Outwits the Ice Giants: And Other Tales of the Maritime Indians (How Glooskap Outwits the Ice Giants) (1989)
by Howard Norman
Six tales featuring the mythical giant who roamed the coast to New England and Canada, created the Indian peoples to keep him company, and fought battles to protect them ever after. (learn more about this book)
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Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad and Other Stories (1989)
by Howard Norman
The seven stories in this first collection by the author of the highly praised novel, The Northern Lights , are inhabited mostly by eccentric loners. In the '40s, a renegade pilot of the title story falls in love with a woman in a kissing booth, and for 20 years remains obsessively... (learn more about this book)
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