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Bird Artist

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.

Howard Norman

HOWARD NORMAN is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His novels <em>The Northern Lights</em> and <em>The Bird Artist</em> were both nominated for National Book Awards. He is also author of the novels <em>The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, What Is Left the Daughter,</em><em>Next Life Might Be Kinder</em>, and <em>My Darling Detective</em>. He divides his time between East Calais, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.