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The Bird Artist

By: Howard Norman
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
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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.

©1994 Howard Norman (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural World Literature
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I’m really sorry because I actually did not pick this book. I had a traveler that accidentally picked it and we started listening and it was very slow and terrible but might work for someone other than us sorry😬🙄

Terrible and terribly slow

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