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I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
by Norman, Howard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0547385420
- ISBN 13
- 9780547385426
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780547385426 . ABout new but for toned top edge; in crisp dust jacket. ; 8.30 X 5.70 X 0.90 inches; 208 pages .
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
- B-Line Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41670
- Title
- I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
- Author
- Norman, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0547385420
- ISBN 13
- 9780547385426
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- 9780547385426
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
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Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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