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The Bird Artist
Nominee:National Book Award -Fiction (1994)
Nominee:Book Sense Book of the Year Award -Adult (1995)
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
- Publish Date: Mar 15th, 1995
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.33in - 5.55in - 0.82in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9780312130275
- Categories: • Literary• World Literature - American - 21st Century
About the Author
Norman, Howard: - Howard Norman is the author of several novels--The Northern Lights, The Bird Artist, and The Museum Guard--and a story collection, The Chauffeur. He has twice been named as a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives with his family in Vermont and Washington D.C.
Praise for this book
"A classic story . . . All that is splendid and spectacular in the book is simply light, magically employed to seek out what is real." --Richard Eder, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Bewitching . . . glows like a night light in the reader's mind." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Completely original and compelling . . . written with great intelligence, wit and clarity." --Anne Whitehouse, The Boston Sunday Globe
"[The Bird Artist] combines colorful backwoods eccentrics and gothic melodrama that strongly resembles the work of film director David Lynch." --Edward B. St. John, Library Journal