The Bird Artist
289 pages
|Published: 20 Jun 1994
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ISBN: 9780312130275
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Picador USA
Publication date: 15 March 1995
Description
Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime—a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women.
The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
