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The Bird Artist

Howard Norman

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#3217 of 8,085 books · #487 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1994).

The Bird Artist 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.

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Publisher
Picador USA
ISBN-13
9780374113308
Topics
Love and infidelityFamily and coming of ageSmall-town life in Newfoundland

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