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Birds Are Not Enough |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Bruce Allen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,085 Words, 12,683 Characters |
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THE BIRD ARTIST
Howard Norman
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994
289 pp., $20.00
The varied and industrious career of Howard Norman--as traveler, folklorist, translator, teacher, and novelist--hearkens back to a time when writers were more active participants in the worlds they surveyed. It also effectively distinguishes him from the hordes of his contemporaries securely housed in academic sinecures.
Norman's home bases are the University of Maryland, where he teaches in the graduate writing program, and East Calais in northern Vermont, where he lives with his wife, the poet Jane Shore, and their six-year-old daughter.
Currently on leave from the university, Norman will spend the next year or so writing the screenplay for a film adaptation of his recently publish...
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...rong, or a weak one whose fall was, all along, unavoidable? He is, of course, both, as Howard Norman's stunningly dramatic and involving novel demonstrates. So are we all dual characters: solitary individuals while also mutually interdependent members of family and community, workaday everymen and hopeful dreamers, kings in our imaginations and commoners where we live, artists and slieveens.
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