My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations
224 pages
|Published: 1 Mar 2004
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ISBN: 9780792266303
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: National Geographic
Publication date: 1 March 2004
Description
Master storyteller Howard Norman draws on more than 30 years of visiting Nova Scotia for this remarkable ''book of selective memories. '' Combining stories, folklore, memoir, nature, poetry, and expository prose, the chapters of My Famous Evening ''may be seen as intersecting facets of reminiscence; there are certain refrains, themes, and preoccupations and I placed birds into as many of the book's nooks and crannies as possible. '' His to portray the emotional dimensions of his experience.
Illustrated with photographs from Norman's own collection, this book offers a delightful, witty, and characteristically quirky take on a curious and beguiling region.
Read the story of Marlais Quire, a young woman who scandalously left her home in Nova Scotia in 1923 to travel to New York in an ill-fated attempt to attend a public reading by Joseph Conrad. '' For Norman, Nova Scotia is a place that provides a deep calm but also a ''sudden noir of the heart. ''
Illustrated with photographs from Norman's own collection, this book offers a delightful, witty, and characteristically quirky take on a curious and beguiling region.
Read the story of Marlais Quire, a young woman who scandalously left her home in Nova Scotia in 1923 to travel to New York in an ill-fated attempt to attend a public reading by Joseph Conrad. '' For Norman, Nova Scotia is a place that provides a deep calm but also a ''sudden noir of the heart. ''
