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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A memoir details the haunting and redemptive events of the author's life, covering such topics as his con-man father's betrayal, the murder-suicide of a houseguest, and his decade spent in the Arctic as a translator of Inuit tales.
Author
Language
English
Description
A memoir of the haunting and redemptive events of the acclaimed writer's life-the betrayal of a con-man father; a murder-suicide in his family's house; the presence of an oystercatcher-each one, as the saying goes, stranger than fiction As with many of us, the life of novelist Howard Norman has had its share of incidents of "arresting strangeness." Yet few of us connect these moments, as Norman has done in this spellbinding memoir, to show how life...
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