3.5
The Bird Artist
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A young artist confesses to a shocking murder that rocks his remote coastal village, in the first novel of the author’s acclaimed Canadian trilogy.
A National Book Award Finalist
Newfoundland, 1911. Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of his small hometown, Witless Bay. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime—a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women.
A National Book Award Finalist
Newfoundland, 1911. Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of his small hometown, Witless Bay. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime—a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women.
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About Howard Norman
HOWARD NORMAN is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His novels <em>The Northern Lights</em> and <em>The Bird Artist</em> were both nominated for National Book Awards. He is also author of the novels <em>The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, What Is Left the Daughter,</em><em>Next Life Might Be Kinder</em>, and <em>My Darling Detective</em>. He divides his time between East Calais, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.
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