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Howard Norman

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Howard Norman was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1949 and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended Western Michigan University, the Folklore Institute of Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. His work with the Cree Indians created an interest and he then got a job as a translator of visa mer Native American poems and folktales. He put together a collection of his translations in the book, The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians, which was named the co-winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by the Academy of American Poets. With the Help of a Whiting Award, he has also written The Northern Lights as well as Kiss in the Hotel, Joseph Conrad and Other Stories, and The Bird Artist, which was named one of Time Magazine's Best Five Books of 1994 and won the New England Booksellers Association Prize in Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Inkluderar namnet: Howard Norman

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Verk av Howard Norman

Fågelmålaren (1994) 1,041 exemplar
What Is Left the Daughter (2010) 459 exemplar
The Museum Guard (1998) 423 exemplar
The Haunting of L. (2002) 213 exemplar
Northern Tales (1990) 156 exemplar
The Northern Lights (1987) 150 exemplar
My Darling Detective (2017) 110 exemplar
Devotion (2007) 90 exemplar
Next Life Might Be Kinder (2014) 86 exemplar
The Ghost Clause (2019) 80 exemplar
The Chauffeur: Stories (2002) 54 exemplar

Associerade verk

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 627 exemplar
Indian Tales (1953) — Förord, vissa utgåvor156 exemplar
Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 38 exemplar
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
New World Journal #5 — Översättare — 1 exemplar

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Allmänna fakta

Vedertaget namn
Norman, Howard
Födelsedag
1949-03-04
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Canada
Födelseort
Toledo, Ohio, USA
Bostadsorter
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Labrador, Canada
Newfoundland, Canada
Utbildning
Western Michigan University (graduate)
Indiana University
Yrken
educator
writer
Relationer
Shore, Jane (wife)
Priser och utmärkelser
Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1996)
Whiting Writers' Award (1985)
Kort biografi
Although his official bio's all state that Howard Norman isn't Canadian, having been born in Toledo, Ohio, and raised in Michigan, he now holds dual citizenship and does consider himself Canadian. I have this directly from Mr. Norman, who I met at a book festival on October 3, 2009. When I mentioned that many people are surprised to learn that he is not Canadian, he said "Oh, but I AM." Good enough for me.

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Diskussioner

The Bird Artist (Bowie's Top 100) i 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (maj 2016)

Recensioner

8/17/2007: This book has one of the most boring and anticlimactic plot lines that I''ve ever read. It was only the plight of poor Defoe that kept me interested enough to finish reading it. An explanation of Imogen''s "issue" would have helped...as would some sort of intense moment, somewhere.
 
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classyhomemaker | 10 andra recensioner | Dec 11, 2023 |
Another fine novel from Howard Norman.

Wyatt Hillyer tells his life story through a series of long letters to a lost love one. To be honest you soon forget they are letters. Peopled with some wonderful characters.
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Caroline_McElwee | 30 andra recensioner | Dec 11, 2022 |
As the daughter he has not seen since she was a very young child approaches her 21st birthday, Wyatt Hillyer attempts to explain to her--in a long letter--the events that led to her existence, and what she should know about his life both before and after her birth. He feels he has nothing else to leave her. Luminous prose, and a story full of heart.
 
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laytonwoman3rd | 30 andra recensioner | Nov 8, 2022 |
Narrator and protagonist Fabian Vas, an illustrator of birds, lives in a small town in Newfoundland in 1911. He admits to killing Botho August, the town’s lighthouse keeper. The novel reads as his confession – what led up to the murder, and what happened in the years afterward. It is not a traditional mystery, since we know Fabian killed August from the first page. The reader is drawn into the story in trying to figure out why Fabian would have done such a thing.

The harsh landscape plays a key role in this story – the sea, the cliffs, the elements. The imagery and descriptions of Fabian’s artworks are well-done. The narrative, like the setting, feels remote and cold. Fabian seems to be drifting through life with no direction. This is a book about decisions and choices, and that the lack of choosing is also a decision.

I felt a sense of vague discomfort in reading this book. Perhaps this is due to the author’s skill in creating a menacing tone. The characters are not particularly likeable, and it was difficult to care about them. At the end I did not feel I knew Fabian any better than at the start. I found it at times engaging and at other times frustrating.
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Castlelass | 32 andra recensioner | Oct 30, 2022 |

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Statistik

Verk
29
Även av
9
Medlemmar
3,438
Popularitet
#7,397
Betyg
½ 3.6
Recensioner
114
ISBN
146
Språk
6
Favoritmärkt
8

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