I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
by Norman, Howard
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- NF.
- Seller
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Waterloo,, Ontario, Canada
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Synopsis
Howard Norman’s spellbinding memoir begins with a portrait, both harrowing and hilarious, of a Midwest boyhood summer working in a bookmobile, in the shadow of a grifter father and under the erotic tutelage of his brother’s girlfriend. His life story continues in places as far-flung as the Arctic, where he spends part of a decade as a translator of Inuit tales—including the story of a soapstone carver turned into a goose whose migration-time lament is “I hate to leave this beautiful place”—and in his beloved Point Reyes, California, as a student of birds. Years later, in Washington, D.C., an act of deeply felt violence occurs in the form of a murder-suicide when Norman and his wife loan their home to a poet and her young son. In Norman’s hands, life’s arresting strangeness is made into a profound, creative, and redemptive story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Goat Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1084127
- Title
- I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
- Author
- Norman, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - NF.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston/New York
- Date Published
- 2014
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