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I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place
by Norman, Howard
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0544317165
- ISBN 13
- 9780544317161
- Seller
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Simi Valley, California, 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
- Schwabe Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0003275553
- Title
- I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place
- Author
- Norman, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0544317165
- ISBN 13
- 9780544317161
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- Qg12a
- Date Published
- 5/6/2014 12:00:01 AM
- Size
- 1.0000 8.0000 5.3000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 0.2500 lb