The Museum Guard
by Norman, Howard
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374216495
- ISBN 13
- 9780374216498
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1998. BC3 - A tight, clean, sound copy with the usual library stamps on the front endpaper and top outside paper edges plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve with the usual library label on the spine wrapping around onto the back plus the dust jacket endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The novel is set in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1938. The main character is a nine year old who was orphaned by a zeppelin crash. He grows up in a hotel under the care of his magnetic uncle and then they work together as guards in Halifax's three room Glace Museum. He is trying to keep the affection of the young woman who is caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery. In a flight of romanticism she decides to leave to be a Jew in Amsterdam. She leaves her job and becomes involved with another young man who is obsessed with the horrific news being broadcast from Europe. Two of the author's novels have been finalists for the National Book Award. By the author of "The Northern Lights" and "The Bird Artist." 310p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
Synopsis
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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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW04517
- Title
- The Museum Guard
- Author
- Norman, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374216495
- ISBN 13
- 9780374216498
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Literature Literary Fiction Jews Historical Fiction Nova Scotia Jewish Holocaust
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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