I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.27 (926 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0547385420 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Wonderful book" according to Amazon Customer. I had read Norman's "The Museum Guard" years ago but didn't love it. However, I thought the author was worth another try.I began this memoir one evening in bed and was immediately sucked in. The book is arranged chronologically, telling the story of five. "Hawaiians call it "pono"" according to E.M. Jalph. The Hawaiians have a phrase, "all is pono (oerfect) and then we tell ourselves a story about it. Without our stories there would be no great literature or novels of any kind. I've read many of Howard Norman's stories and found his point of view and chara. "A Insight Memoir of Places" according to Todd K. In I'd Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place, Norman displays a collage his life's most seminal moments which sample his experience in five different locales (Midwest, Arctic, West Coast, Washington D.C., and New England). However, the focus, instead of wei
(July) . Norman is currently content to let the world come to his Vermont doorstep, but he may not have given up travelling quite yet. With a twinge of melancholy and a steely resolve not to let himself be moved or hurt, Norman regales us with his tale of lust, death (he inadvertently kills a swan on a local lake), and disappointment that mark his teenage summer of 1964 in Grand Rapids, Mich.: I was in a phase of moving away from people and when the duck and swans migrated south in their formations, I remember feeling bereft. From Publishers Weekly In this luminous memoir, novelist Norman (The Bird Artist) recalls moments of arresting strangeness, even in the midst of his quest to gain clarity and stay balanced emotionally. Norman write
“A bracing and no-nonsense memoir, infused with fresh takes on love, death, and human nature.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewAs with many of us, the life of acclaimed novelist Howard Norman has had its share of incidents of “arresting strangeness.” Yet few of us connect these moments, as Norman has done in this spellbinding memoir, to show how life tangles with the psyche to become art. 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. Of life in his Vermont farmhouse Norman writes, “Everything I love most happens most every day.”In the hands of Howard Norman, author of The Bird Artist and What Is L