The Bird Artist: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0312130279
- ISBN-13
- 9780312130275
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 289
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-03-15
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Howard Norman
Description
A painter of the birds of his remote village on the coast of Newfoundland, the narrator of this novel--a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award--recounts the passion and betrayal that led him to murder a lighthouse keeper. Reprint. Tour.
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