The Haunting of L.
por Howard Norman
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- ISBN 10
- 0374168253
- ISBN 13
- 9780374168254
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The final book in Howard Norman's Canadian Trilogy: a novel about spirit-photographs, adultery, and greed
It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist, Vienna Linn, in the remote town of Churchill, Manitoba. Peter's life is about to change in ways he scarcely could have imagined. Across Canada, Linn has been arranging and photographing gruesome accidents for the private collection, in London, of a Mr. Radin Heur-theirs is a macabre duet of art and violence.
After a strenuous journey, Peter arrives in Churchill on the very night of his employer's wedding only to fall under the spell of Vienna's brilliant and beautiful wife, Kala Murie. Several months later, the uneasy menage a trois moves to Peter's native Halifax. Peter is drawn more and more deeply to Kala as he reluctantly comes to share her obsession with "spirit pictures," photographs in which the faces of the long-dead or forgotten mysteriously appear --and as he sees more and more terrifying scenes come to life in the darkroom.
Howard Norman's "The Haunting of L." is a chilling fable of moral blindness and artistic ambition, from a writer of "complexly tragic vision" (Richard Bernstein, "The New York Times").
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The Haunting of L. is Howard Norman’s third novel in his Canadian trilogy. The previous two are The Bird Artist , a National Book Award finalist, and The Museum Guard , available in Vintage Canada. Howard Norman is a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for Fiction. He lives in Washington, D.C. and Vermont. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Livreiro
- Eureka Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 218513
- Título
- The Haunting of L.
- Autor
- Howard Norman
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Near Fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374168253
- ISBN 13
- 9780374168254
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2002
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