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Subject(s)

• Newfoundland and Labrador—Fiction [Browse]

Summary note

• The Bird Artist, Howard Norman's spellbinding new novel, is set in Newfoundland in 1911. Fabian Vas's story, told with disarming simplicity and grace, takes place against a spare and profoundly beautiful landscape where the most powerful of emotions stand out starkly against naked rock, sea and sky.
• At age twenty, Fabian is working at the boat yard, taking a correspondence course in bird painting, and sleeping with Margaret Handle, a woman of great beauty, intelligence and waywardness - though his parents are determined to marry him to a distant relation he has never met. Then his father leaves on a long hunting expedition, his mother takes up with the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and Fabian's world loses most of its bearings.
• The Bird Artist reveals the fire at the heart of human interactions with a rare and enthralling directness.

ISBN

0374113300 :

LCCN

94070542

OCLC

30467956

RCP

C - S

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