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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,... read more

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In the four-poster bed, my employer's wife, Kala Murie, lying beside me, the world seemed in perfect order.

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  1. Howard Norman (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0-374-16825-3
Page Count: 326

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  • Library of Congress: PR9199.3.N564H38 2002
  • Dewey: 813.54

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