Howard Norman, Author . National Geographic $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6630-3
Norman shares his decades-long love affair with Nova Scotia in this latest addition to the National Geographic Directions series. Having traveled to the island in 1979 for work on a documentary film script, the author of The Bird Artist
and The...
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Howard Norman, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-16825-4
The stark, unforgiving climate and landscape of Manitoba and Halifax, the symbiotic relationship of art and violence and the unlimited vagaries of human behavior are the idiosyncratic obsessions of this haunting novel, the final book in Norman's
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Howard Norman, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (190p) ISBN 978-0-618-73541-9
Norman's intriguing, if at times baffling, sixth novel opens with a fight between Canadians David Kozol and his father-in-law, William Field, outside a hotel in London "on the morning of August 19, 1985." That date is important—it&#
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Howard Norman, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $25 (243p) ISBN 978-0-618-73543-3
Set on the Atlantic coast of Canada during WWII, Norman’s latest (after Devotion
) is an expertly crafted tale of love during wartime. Wyatt Hillyer loses both his parents on the same day when they jump from different bridges in Halifax, Nova...
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Howard Norman, Author Picador USA $16 (289p) ISBN 978-0-312-13027-5
Set in Newfoundland, Norman's novel about a young man who confesses to the murder of the village lighthouse keeper, and whose gift for drawing birds becomes both his physical and his emotional release, was a 1994 National Book Award finalist. (Apr.)
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Howard Norman, Author Summit Books $17.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-53231-4
Noah Krainik is a teenager growing up in the 1950s, but this is not the usual'50s coming-of-age story. Noah lives in the northern reaches of Canada with his mother, his cousin Charlotte and, occasionally, his map-making, peripatetic father. It's 90...
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Howard Norman, Author Pantheon Books $24.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-394-54060-3
There are 116 folktales in this gathering from the myriad cultures of the North. Drawn from regions from Siberia to Greenland, Canada and the Aleutian Islands, the stories represent a diversity of landscapes as well as of human and animal...
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Howard Norman, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $20 (289p) ISBN 978-0-374-11330-8
Northern landscapes are definitely writer Norman's territory; in Northern Lights and now in this enchanting second novel, he simultaneously evokes the region's harsh weather and terrain and invests it with magical possibilities. There is a wonderful
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Howard Norman. . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-544-23610-3
Norman's (Next Life Might Be Kind) latest novel opens with Canadian Jacob Rigolet witnessing his mother, Nora, vandalize a famous World War II photograph at a Halifax art auction in 1977. Nora, having escaped from the Nova Scotia Rest Hospital, is...
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Howard Norman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-547-71212-3
This somewhat far-fetched but nonetheless entertaining novel set in 1973 by Norman (The Bird Artist) involves a young man’s struggles to overcome his grief and rage. Thirtysomething Sam Lattimore, a novelist who has published his debut title and...
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Howard Norman, Author Summit Books $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64419-2
The seven stories in this first collection by the author of the highly praised novel, The Northern Lights , are inhabited mostly by eccentric loners. In the '40s, a renegade pilot of the title story falls in love with a woman in a kissing booth, and
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Howard Norman, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-21649-8
The worlds of Norman's novels (The Northern Lights; The Bird Artist) are always slightly askew. Like trompe l'oeil paintings, they contain a veil of mystery spread over realistic settings. DeFoe Russet, like most of Norman's other protagonists, is a
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Howard Norman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-0-547-38542-6
In this luminous memoir, novelist Norman (The Bird Artist) recalls moments of “arresting strangeness,” even in the midst of his quest to gain clarity and stay balanced emotionally. Norman writes of five places where he lived and the characters he...
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Howard Norman, Author, H. Norman, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-013199-4
These seven stories by the author of the highly praised novel, The Northern Lights , are inhabited mostly by eccentric loners. ``Although these diverse tales are provocative and distinguished by Norman's ability to transmute the circumstances of...
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Howard Norman, read by Bronson Pinchot. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, 6 CDs, 7 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-4708-6223-7
In Norman’s smart new novel, set in 1970s Nova Scotia, protagonist Jacob Rigolet is attending a photographic art auction when his mother, Nora, a patient at a nearby residential treatment center, rushes into the room and tosses ink on Robert Capa’s...
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Howard Norman, Author, Leo Dillon, Illustrator, Diane Dillon, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $22 (164p) ISBN 978-0-15-230979-4
Right from the start--from the stylized image of the tautly posed girl dreaming of geese on the cover, to the lightly stamped snowflakes that mark the endpapers and divide the chapters, to Norman's (known for The Bird Artist and other works for...
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Howard Norman, Author, Diane Dillon, Illustrator, Leo Dillon, Illustrator , illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. Harcourt/Gulliver $22 (78p) ISBN 978-0-15-201982-2
The team behind The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese
here presents five tales from Australia, Norway, Sri Lanka, Africa's Matabelel and China—each, in some form or another, about birds. Told to Norman by native speakers at a folktale...
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Howard Norman, Author, Tom Pohrt, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $20 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-200888-8
Sophisticated pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations grace this elegant, slightly oversize collection of seven Algonquian tales. Norman's (The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese) pungent retellings, redolent of the oral tradition from which they spring,...
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Howard Norman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-544-98729-6
Norman (My Darling Detective) poignantly examines the trajectory of two marriages from the viewpoint of a dead writer. Recently deceased Simon Inescort haunts his Vermont farmhouse, which is purchased in the summer of 1994 by a young couple: Muriel,
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Howard Norman. Norton, $27.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-324-07633-9
Norman follows up The Ghost Clause with a stunning literary mystery set in 1918 Nova Scotia. On the same night a whale washes ashore in the small town of Parrsboro, bigamist Elizabeth Frame murders her second husband in their bed. Reporter Toby...
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