The Resource Next life might be kinder, Howard Norman
Next life might be kinder, Howard Norman
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- Summary
- "After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me." Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman's spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth's murder are revealed in heart stopping increments. Sam's life afterward is complicated. For one thing, in a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his films, whose artistic drive sets in motion an increasingly intense cat and mouse game between the two men. For another, Sam has begun "seeing" Elizabeth, not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and watching her line up books on a small beach. What at first seems simply hallucination born of terrible grief reveals itself, evening by evening, as something else entirely"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Next life might be kinder
- Title
- Next life might be kinder
- Statement of responsibility
- Howard Norman
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- trueFaith
- trueFilmmakers
- Widowers -- Fiction
- trueWidowers
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueViolence
- true1970s -- 1970 -- 1979
- trueBiographical films
- trueGrief in men
- truePsychological fiction
- Murder victims -- Fiction
- trueCanada
- trueHallucinations and illusions
- trueHalifax, Nova Scotia
- trueNova Scotia
- trueMurder
- trueSuspense fiction
- trueRedemption
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me." Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman's spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth's murder are revealed in heart stopping increments. Sam's life afterward is complicated. For one thing, in a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his films, whose artistic drive sets in motion an increasingly intense cat and mouse game between the two men. For another, Sam has begun "seeing" Elizabeth, not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and watching her line up books on a small beach. What at first seems simply hallucination born of terrible grief reveals itself, evening by evening, as something else entirely"--
- Summary
- Selling his life story to a violent filmmaker in the aftermath of his sensual wife's murder, Sam develops a cat-and-mouse relationship with the filmmaker and begins experiencing wrenching hallucinations
- Assigning source
- Book jacket
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10304581
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Norman, Howard A
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.N564
- LC item number
- N49 2014
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Widowers
- Murder victims
- Murder
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- Next life might be kinder, Howard Norman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 255 pages
- Isbn
- 9780547712123
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013045635
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)854944588
- 1895900
- Label
- Next life might be kinder, Howard Norman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 255 pages
- Isbn
- 9780547712123
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013045635
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)854944588
- 1895900
Subject
- true1970s -- 1970 -- 1979
- trueBiographical films
- trueCanada
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueFaith
- trueFilmmakers
- trueGrief in men
- trueHalifax, Nova Scotia
- trueHallucinations and illusions
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMurder
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Murder victims -- Fiction
- trueNova Scotia
- truePsychological fiction
- trueRedemption
- trueSuspense fiction
- trueViolence
- trueWidowers
- Widowers -- Fiction
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