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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 the Glace Museum in Halifax. But, caught up in a tormenting love affair with Imogen Linny, the caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery, he finds himself unexpectedly catapulted into the horrors of war.
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 the Glace Museum in Halifax. But, caught up in a tormenting love affair with Imogen Linny, the caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery, he finds himself unexpectedly catapulted into the horrors of war.
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"A haunting story of obsession and loss." - The Toronto Star
"A world where the drama of life can overstep time and space -- and souls are lost, found and reinvented. The Maritime city...becomes a fog-bound, claustrophobic cross-roads in which domestic drama and the great sweep of history intersect." - Maclean's
"[The Museum Guard] fairly glimmers with the originality of his complexly tragic vision...The denouement...has a Gothic power, a power intensified by the very leanness and clarity of Howard's prose." - The Halifax Chronicle-Herald
"Artfully combines beauty and dread on every page...Exquisite...intensely beautiful and oddly disturbing." - The Hamilton Spectator
"A comedy of doomed love--His take on the many ways we kid ourselves is spot-on." - Saturday Night
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"A world where the drama of life can overstep time and space -- and souls are lost, found and reinvented. The Maritime city...becomes a fog-bound, claustrophobic cross-roads in which domestic drama and the great sweep of history intersect." - Maclean's
"[The Museum Guard] fairly glimmers with the originality of his complexly tragic vision...The denouement...has a Gothic power, a power intensified by the very leanness and clarity of Howard's prose." - The Halifax Chronicle-Herald
"Artfully combines beauty and dread on every page...Exquisite...intensely beautiful and oddly disturbing." - The Hamilton Spectator
"A comedy of doomed love--His take on the many ways we kid ourselves is spot-on." - Saturday Night
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 latter in their 1999-2000 season.
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- EditoreKnopf Canada
- Data di pubblicazione1998
- ISBN 10 0676971725
- ISBN 13 9780676971729
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Descrizione libro HARDCOVER. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! Canadian first edition, first printing. Published in 1998. Virtually no wear to jacket. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark. Codice articolo sku520010866
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Descrizione libro Condizione: Fine. Like New condition. Great condition, but not exactly fully crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. Codice articolo 353-0676971725-lkn
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Descrizione libro hardcover. Condizione: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. Toronto. 1998. Knopf of Canada. 1st Canadian Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0676971725. The Title Page States Alfred A. Knopf Canada, But Both Binding & Dustjacket Read Farrar Straus Giroux. 310 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Ruth Marten. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1938. Orphaned at age nine by a zeppelin crash, DeFoe Russet grew up in a hotel under the care of his magnetic uncle Edward. Now 30, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. By day, he and his uncle break the silence of the museum with heated conversations that show them to be opposites at life.' By night, DeFoe spends his time trying to keep the affection of Imogen Linny, the young caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery. Their relationship is a most provocative example of unrequited love. When the Dutch painting Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam' arrives at the museum, Imogen becomes obsessed and abandons her life in favor of the ennobled one she imagines for its subject-even though being a Jew in Amsterdam is becoming more and more perilous as the clouds of World War II begin to gather. As the true story of the Jewess emerges, Imogen leaves DeFoe and enters the orbit of Edward and his own fascination with the horrific news being broadcast from Europe. Drawing together the mysteries of identity and self-determination and the ominous aura of the late 1930s, THE MUSEUM GUARD is an examination of the desire to step out of the everyday and into action-and of that desire's often tragic consequences. inventory #20211. Codice articolo z20211
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Descrizione libro Condizione: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. Codice articolo 0676971725-2-3
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The Museum Guard: A Novel
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. Canadian First. First Canadian Edition stated on verso of title page; signed by Howard Norman on the half-title page with no inscription; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Signed by Author(s). Book. Codice articolo 019505
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Canadian edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). Stated 1st Canadian edition, no number line (1st printing). Dust jacket has some edgewear. Book essentially as new., some softening to cap of spine. By the New England Booksellers Association Prize-, Lannan Literary Award-, Whiting Writers' Award-, Harold Morton Landon Translation Award-, Guggenheim Fellowship-, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship-, and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship-winning author of 'The Bird Artist' and 'Next Life Might Be Kinder'. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 002278
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Canadian edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). Stated 1st edition, no number line (1st printing). Dust jacket has faint edgewear. Book essentially as new. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 310 p. Audience: General/trade. Canadian edition is rare signed. By the New England Booksellers Association Prize-, Lannan Literary Award-, Whiting Writers' Award-, Harold Morton Landon Translation Award-, Guggenheim Fellowship-, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship-, and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship-winning author of 'The Bird Artist' and 'Next Life Might Be Kinder'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo Alibris.0007040
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