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The bird artist /

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The setting is the bleak coastline of Newfoundland and the protagonist is Fabian Bass, an artistic type who paints birds when he is not building boats. Forced by his parents to abandon the woman he loves in order to marry a cousin, he revenges himself by murdering his mother's lover. By the aut...

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Main Author:	Norman, Howard A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, [1994]
Subjects:	Newfoundland and Labrador > Fiction. Artists > Fiction. Artists. Newfoundland and Labrador. CHR 1994. PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy) Domestic fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction.

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