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008			240905t19981998--------------000-1-eng-d
020			_a9780312204273
082	0		_aFIC NOR
100	1		_aNorman, Howard
245	1	4	_aThe museum guard _c/ Howard Norman
260			_aNew York _b: Picador _c, c1998
300			_a310p. pb. us _c; 14
500			_aSigned by the author
520			_aA novel about two museum guards, one an eccentric uncle, the other his orphaned nephew, DeFoe. By day they spend their time curating an art collection, breaking the silence of the museum with heated conversation; by night we learn about their loves and past histories. DeFoe is in love with Imogen, the young caretaker of the sole small Jewish cemetery in Halifax Nova Scotia, where the novel begins in 1938. She becomes obssessed with a Dutch painting called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and abandons her life to look for nobility in the intensity of life in Amsterdam for Jews in the late 30s. The book is an examination of the desire to step out of the everyday and into action, with a startling conclusion. With echoes of the holocaust and of a world lost but not forgotten, this is a poignant and perfect novel of great power.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aJews _z-Nova Scotia _v--Fiction
650		4	_aMuseums _zNova Scotia _vFiction
650		4	_aHolocaust _xJewish (1939-1945) _vFiction
651			_aNova Scotia _xFiction
942			_cMO
999			_c264369 _d264369