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I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
"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: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Devotion
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: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
"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: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Next Life Might Be Kinder: A Novel
“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: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
My Darling Detective
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: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
What Is Left the Daughter
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: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations
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: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
The Ghost Clause
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: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Where the Chill Came From: Cree Windigo Tales and Journeys
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: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
The Bird Artist: A Novel
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: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
Trickster and the Fainting Birds
A collection of seven Cree and Chippewa trickster tales.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
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 CaponegroJoyce 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: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
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 CaponegroExploring 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: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
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 CaponegroNew 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: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Dying Patient
"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: ENGCopyright: 1980 -
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. DombyIn 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: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Sober Reflections
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: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Sober Reflections: Commerce, Public Health, and the Evolution of Alcohol Policy in Canada, 1980-2000
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: ENGCopyright: 2005