Another fun event at our local book store!
Vermont Author Howard Norman at Brown Dog Books & Gifts!
Vermont Author Howard Norman presents his latest book
I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place
Wednesday September 25, 7pm
“A bracing and no-nonsense memoir, infused with fresh takes on love, death, and human nature.” — /Kirkus Reviews/, starred review
“As with many of us, the life of acclaimed novelist Howard Norman has had its share of incidents of “arresting strangeness.” In this spellbinding memoir, Norman shows how life tangles with the psyche to become art.
From a of a Midwest boyhood summer working in a bookmobile, in the shadow of a grifter father and the erotic tutelage of his brother’s girlfriend, Norman's harrowing, hilarious life story continues in places as far-flung as the Arctic, where he works 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”.
Norman’s adventures, unsettling and moving, are stitched together with moments of solace. Of life in his Vermont farmhouse Norman writes, “Everything I love most happens most every day.”
In this tale, Howard Norman, author of /The Bird Artist/ and /What Is Left the Daughter/, makes life’s arresting strangeness into a profound and redemptive memoir.
Meet Author Howard Norman
Date: Wednesday September 25, 2013
Time: 7pm
Brown Dog Books & Gifts
90 Mechanicsville Rd #2
Hinesburg Vermont 05461
802-482-5189
www.browndogbooksandgifts.com ###
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