I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
by Norman, Howard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0547385420
- ISBN 13
- 9780547385426
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
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
- The Unskoolbookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032942
- Title
- I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
- Author
- Norman, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0547385420
- ISBN 13
- 9780547385426
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Signed Editions, Memoir
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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