The Bird Artist: A Novel

Howard Normans The Bird Artist the first book of his Canadian trilogy begins in 1911. Its narrator Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper Botho August. Later he confesses who and what drove him to his crime--a measured profoundly engrossing story of passion betrayal guilt and redemption between men and women.The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.