I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
by Norman, Howard
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0547385420
- ISBN 13
- 9780547385426
- Seller
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Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3932069-6
- Title
- I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
- Author
- Norman, Howard
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0547385420
- ISBN 13
- 9780547385426
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 2013-07-09
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