I hate to leave this beautiful place
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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xii, 194 pages ; 22 cm
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 N842
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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"A lyrical and unique memoir, from one of our finest writers, proving that life can be as strange as fiction. Howard Norman's life has been framed by five incidents of 'arresting strangeness,' each given its chapter -- and each chapter yielding clues to the improbable trajectory of a fascinating life. First, a portrait, both harrowing and humorous, of a Midwest boyhood summer under the erotic tutelage of his brother's girlfriend. Later, he spends a decade in the Arctic as a translator of Inuit tales and a student of birds. In Eskimo Point, translating the tale of a soapstone carver turned into a goose (whose migration-time lament is 'I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place'), news comes over the radio that 'John Lennon is dead.' Twenty years later, another act of deeply felt violence occurs in the form of a murder-suicide, when Norman and his wife loan their DC home to a poet and her young son. But there is solace, too. Of life in his Vermont farmhouse, Norman writes, 'Everything I love most happens most every day.'"--www.Amazon.com.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Norman, H. A. (2013). I hate to leave this beautiful place . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Norman, Howard A. 2013. I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Norman, Howard A. I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Norman, Howard A. I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

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