I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
- Sprog:
- Engelsk
- ISBN:
- 9780544317161
- Indbinding:
- Paperback
- Sideantal:
- 208
- Udgivet:
- 6. maj 2014
- Størrelse:
- 136x14x201 mm.
- Vægt:
- 163 g.
- 8-11 hverdage.
- 20. november 2024
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Beskrivelse af I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
?The events of a single episode of Howard Norman's superb memoir are both on the edge of chaos and gathered superbly into coherent meaning . . . A wise, riskily written, beautiful book.? ? Michael OndaatjeHoward 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. ?Uses the tight focus of geography to describe five unsettling periods of his life, each separated by time and subtle shifts in his narrative voice . . . The originality of his telling here is as surprising as ever.? ? Washington Post?These stories almost seem like tall tales themselves, but Norman renders them with a journalistic attention to detail. Amidst these bizarre experiences, he finds solace through the places he's lived and their quirky inhabitants, human and avian.? ? The New Yorker
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