The Bird Artist
Autor Howard Normanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 1995
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Book Sense Book of the Year Award (1995), National Book Awards (1994)
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 the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime--a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women.
"The Bird Artist "is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780312130275
ISBN-10: 0312130279
Pagini: 289
Dimensiuni: 141 x 212 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Picador USA
Locul publicării:New York, NY
ISBN-10: 0312130279
Pagini: 289
Dimensiuni: 141 x 212 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Picador USA
Locul publicării:New York, NY
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Descriere
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.
Recenzii
"A classic story . . . All that is splendid and spectacular in the book is simply light, magically employed to seek out what is real." --Richard Eder, " The Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"Bewitching . . . glows like a night light in the reader's mind." --Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
"Completely original and compelling . . . written with great intelligence, wit and clarity." --Anne Whitehouse, "The Boston Sunday Globe"
"["The Bird Artist"] combines colorful backwoods eccentrics and gothic melodrama that strongly resembles the work of film director David Lynch." --Edward B. St. John, "Library Journal"
"Bewitching . . . glows like a night light in the reader's mind." --Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
"Completely original and compelling . . . written with great intelligence, wit and clarity." --Anne Whitehouse, "The Boston Sunday Globe"
"["The Bird Artist"] combines colorful backwoods eccentrics and gothic melodrama that strongly resembles the work of film director David Lynch." --Edward B. St. John, "Library Journal"
Premii
- Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee, 1995
- National Book Awards Nominee, 1994