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Libri antichi e moderni

Norman, Howard

The Museum Guard

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998

18,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1998
ISBN
0374216495
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
Norman, Howard
Editori
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Edizione
1st US Edition
Soggetto
MUSEUMS ART GALLERIES FICTION CANADA HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA
Descrizione
No Jacket
Descrizione
H
Sovracoperta
No
Stato di conservazione
Molto buono
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
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Descrizione

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.