I hate to leave this beautiful place
By: Howard Norman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780547385426
Subjects: Canadian Authors; Biography
Work titles: Essays
Description: A memoir details the haunting and redemptive events of the author's life, covering such topics as his con-man father's betrayal, the murder-suicide of a houseguest, and his decade spent in the Arctic as a translator of Inuit tales.
Table of contents: title: Advice of the fatherly sort; title: Grey geese descending; title: I hate to leave this beautiful place; title: Kingfisher days; title: The healing powers of the Western Oystercatcher.