The bird artist

Howard A. Norman

first published 1994 Picador USA, 1995

Wheeler large print book series

The Bird Artist, Howard Norman's spellbinding new novel, is set in Newfoundland in 1911. Fabian Vas's story, told with disarming simplicity and grace, takes place against a spare and profoundly beautiful landscape where the most powerful of emotions stand out starkly against naked rock, sea and sky. At age twenty, Fabian is working at the boat yard, taking a correspondence course in bird painting, and sleeping with...

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The bird artist edition · 1995 · Wheeler Pub. · 270 pages
The bird artist edition · 1995 · Picador USA
The bird artist edition · 1994 · Farrar, Straus, & Giroux · 289 pages

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