Howard Norman
Howard Norman has lived, worked and travelled throughout the Canadian Arctic and subarctic for many years, writing about language and culture, wildlife and natural history. All his novels are set in Canada, and the first two, The Northern Lights (set in Manitoba and Toronto) and The Bird Artist (set in turn-of-the-century Newfoundland) were finalists for the National Book Award in the US. He has also edited Northern Tales, Folktales from Canada, Greenland and Siberia, and a collection of arctic folktales, The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese. The Mermaid Theatre Company (Nova Scotia) will tour a drama for children based on the...
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Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97500-0 (0-676-97500-3)
February 25, 2003 | $19.95
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The final book in Howard Norman’s Canadian trilogy is a tremendous accomplishment: a novel about spirit photographs, adultery and greed that moves from Halifax to the Far North and back again.
It is 1927. When young Peter Duvett accepts a job as an assistant to the esteemed portraitist Vienna Linn, in the...
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97240-5 (0-676-97240-3)
September 7, 1999 | $18.95
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An exquisite and harrowing new novel about ordinary lives swept up in the chaos of history, as the shadow of WWII touches Halifax.
Defoe Russet, orphaned at age nine by a Zeppelin crash, has grown up in the care of his magnetic uncle Edward. Now twenty-five, he works as a guard at...
