I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
by Norman, Howard
- Used
- Condition
- UsedVeryGood
- ISBN 10
- 0547385420
- ISBN 13
- 9780547385426
- Seller
-
Bensalem, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Phillybooks COM LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 531ZZZ0020LZ_ns
- Title
- I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
- Author
- Norman, Howard
- Book Condition
- UsedVeryGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0547385420
- ISBN 13
- 9780547385426
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 2013-07-09
Terms of Sale
Phillybooks COM LLC
About the Seller
Phillybooks COM LLC
About Phillybooks COM LLC
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...