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Livres anciens et modernes

Norman, Howard

The Museum Guard

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998

18,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1998
ISBN
0374216495
Lieu d'édition
New York
Auteur
Norman, Howard
Éditeurs
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Edition
1st US Edition
Thème
MUSEUMS ART GALLERIES FICTION CANADA HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA
Description
No Jacket
Description
H
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
Tres bonne condition
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

Orphaned by a zeppelin crash at age nine, DeFoe Russet was raised in a Halifax, Nova Scotia, hotel by his magnetic uncle Edward. Now thirty, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. He and his uncle disturb the silence of the museum with heated conversations that prove them to be "opposites at life." Away from the museum, DeFoe courts the affection of Imogen Linny, the young caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery. Everything changes when Imogen, inspired by the arrival of a painting, Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam, abandons Halifax for the ennobled life she imagines for the painting's subject -- even amid the growing perilousness of being a Jew in Amsterdam. Set against the impending events of World War II, The Museum Guard, the second book of his Canadian trilogy, explores the mysteries of identity and self-determination, and the desire to step out of the ordinary into an alluring and dangerous sphere of action.
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