Books by Howard Norman
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review 1: I had read good things about this book, and thought I'd read it. I really enjoyed about the first 3rd, liked the writing, liked the story. The author tells about his youth, but skips quickly to his 20's. And after reading a bit about his first love, and how he got started writ...
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review 1: OOOOH, wonderful new book by Howard Norman. I fell in love with his writing years ago when I read The Bird Artist. Listen to this FIRST SENTENCE: "After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me." How's tha...
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review 1: Picked up this Howard Norman book (rather, a friend picked it up for me!) rather at random on a recommendation that Norman is a worthy author....but one I had never yet read. He now has my endorsement, as well. Set in and near Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the heart of WWII, the plot ...
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review 1: A wonderful story about a man in love, who makes mistakes. But he never stops loving the woman of his dreams or his daughter. His story is unlike any other I have read in my short life. In a way it is sad, while also being hopeful. You hope the entire time that things will tu...