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  • I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place

    I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place

    by Howard Norman

    "A bracing and no-nonsense memoir, infused with fresh takes on love, death, and human nature." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review As with many of us, the life of acclaimed novelist Howard Norman has had its share of incidents of "arresting strangeness." Yet few of us connect these moments, as Norm... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2013
  • Devotion

    Devotion

    by Howard Norman

    Fans of Howard Norman, the internationally acclaimed author of The Hunting of L and The Bird Artist and a two-time National Book Award finalist, will find in his latest novel -- an intense and intriguingly unconventional love story -- all the hallmarks of this masterly writer: sparkling yet spare la... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2007
  • I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place

    I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place

    by Howard Norman

    "The events of a single episode of Howard Norman's superb memoir are both on the edge of chaos and gathered superbly into coherent meaning . . . A wise, riskily written, beautiful book." -- Michael OndaatjeHoward Norman's spellbinding memoir begins with a portrait, both harrowing and hilarious, of a... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2013
  • Next Life Might Be Kinder: A Novel

    Next Life Might Be Kinder: A Novel

    by Howard Norman

    “Norman elegantly crafts a murder story that isn’t a mystery; a ghost story without shivers. At its heart, this is a bittersweet love story, about the hole left in a life.” — Seattle Times Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. Their brief, erotically charged marri... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2014
  • My Darling Detective

    My Darling Detective

    by Howard Norman

    A witty, engrossing homage to noir from National Book Award finalist Howard NormanJacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction—his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Befo... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2016
  • What Is Left the Daughter

    What Is Left the Daughter

    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 suddenly orph... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2010
  • My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations

    My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations

    by Howard Norman

    Master storyteller Howard Norman draws on more than 30 years of visiting Nova Scotia for this remarkable book of selective memories. Combining stories, folklore, memoir, nature, poetry, and expository prose, the chapters of My Famous Evening may be seen as intersecting facets of reminiscence; there ... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2004
  • The Ghost Clause

    The Ghost Clause

    by Howard Norman

    National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another “provocative . . . haunting”* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost (*Janet Maslin, New York Times)Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2019
  • Where the Chill Came From: Cree Windigo Tales and Journeys

    Where the Chill Came From: Cree Windigo Tales and Journeys

    by Howard Norman

    The Swampy Cree Indians of the Canadian subarctic face not only a cold and forbidding environment, but also a powerful, malevolent antagonist with a heart of ice: the Windigo. Windigo is one of many spirit-beings who have wandered Cree territories since ancient times. It is a major figure in the ... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 1982
  • The Bird Artist: A Novel

    The Bird Artist: A Novel

    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 the v... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 1994
  • Trickster and the Fainting Birds

    Trickster and the Fainting Birds

    by Howard Norman

    A collection of seven Cree and Chippewa trickster tales.... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 1999
  • A Cabinet of Curiosity (Conjunctions #71)

    A Cabinet of Curiosity (Conjunctions #71)

    by Peter Straub • Diane Ackerman • Howard Norman • John Edgar Wideman • Rick Moody • Bradford Morrow • Joanna Scott • Dinaw Mengestu • Robert Kelly • Karen Russell • David Shields • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge • Peter Gizzi • Norman Manea • Brian Evenson • Ann Lauterbach • Martine Bellen • Mary Caponegro

    Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Diane Ackerman, and more explore the double-edged sword of curiosity . . . Curiosity is as central to life as breathing. And like breath itself, when it ceases, the vibrancy of life fades and disappears. Curiosity leads to discoveries both beneficent and, at times, de... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2018
  • Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue (Conjunctions #70)

    Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue (Conjunctions #70)

    by Peter Straub • Diane Ackerman • Howard Norman • John Edgar Wideman • Rick Moody • Bradford Morrow • Joanna Scott • Dinaw Mengestu • Robert Kelly • Karen Russell • David Shields • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge • Peter Gizzi • Brian Evenson • Ann Lauterbach • Martine Bellen • Mary Caponegro

    Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited. Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2018
  • Other Aliens (Conjunctions #67)

    Other Aliens (Conjunctions #67)

    by Peter Straub • Howard Norman • John Edgar Wideman • Elizabeth Hand • Rick Moody • Bradford Morrow • Joanna Scott • John Ashbery • Robert Kelly • William H. Gass • Karen Russell • David Shields • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge • Peter Gizzi • Norman Manea • Brian Evenson • Ann Lauterbach • Martine Bellen • Mary Caponegro

    New writings on our fear of—and fascination with—the “other” from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more.Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are “other.” Aliens are the stuff of science fiction and fantasy. Aliens are traditional literary figures that cause us ... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2016
  • The Dying Patient

    The Dying Patient

    by Orville G. Brim, Jr., Howard E. Freeman, Sol Levine and Norman A. Scotch

    "Recommended for the provocative questions it raises concerning the effect on the patient of the structure of medical care, concerning the important decisions regarding policy facing the medical profession, the hospital administrator, and the public, and for the discussions of legal and economic dim... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 1980
  • The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans

    The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans

    by Matthew Norman • Jonathan A. Noyalas • Steven E. Sodergren • Rebecca Howard • Zachery Fry • Jonathan Neu • Sarah Handley-Cousins • Angela M. Riotto • Kurt Hackemer • Tyler Sperrazza • Matthew Christopher Hulbert • Kelly Mezurek • Adam H. Domby

    In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were ir... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2020
  • Sober Reflections

    Sober Reflections

    by Andree Demers • Evert Lindquist • Norman Giesbrecht

    Contributors include Susan Bondy (Toronto), Andrée Demers (Montréal), Madelyn Fournier (consultant, Montreal), Norman Giesbrecht (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, CAMH), Lynn Kavanagh (Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto), Evert Lindquist (Victoria), Bronwyn MacKenzie (CAMH), Alan Ogborne (consultant)... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2006
  • Sober Reflections: Commerce, Public Health, and the Evolution of Alcohol Policy in Canada, 1980-2000

    Sober Reflections: Commerce, Public Health, and the Evolution of Alcohol Policy in Canada, 1980-2000

    by Andree Demers • Evert Lindquist • Norman Giesbrecht

    Contributors include Susan Bondy (Toronto), Andrée Demers (Montréal), Madelyn Fournier (consultant, Montreal), Norman Giesbrecht (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, CAMH), Lynn Kavanagh (Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto), Evert Lindquist (Victoria), Bronwyn MacKenzie (CAMH), Alan Ogborne (consultant)... More

    Language: ENG
    Derechos de autor: 2005
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