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The bird artist / Howard Norman

By:

Norman, Howard A

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The first book of his Canadian trilogyPublication details: New York : Picador USA c1994Description: 289 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780312130275

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction

DDC classification:

FIC NOR

Awards:

A 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	FIC NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Fiction		010656

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.

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A 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

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