Research Catalog
The bird artist
- Title
- The bird artist / Howard Norman.
- Author
- Norman, Howard A.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9199.3.N564 B5 1994g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 289 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 0374113300 :
- LCCN
- 94070542
- OCLC
- 30467956
- ocm30467956
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries