About the Author:
HOWARD NORMAN is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His novels The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist were both nominated for National Book Awards. He is also author of the novels The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, What Is Left the Daughter,Next Life Might Be Kinder, and My Darling Detective. He divides his time between East Calais, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.
Review:
"Howard Norman, who has always stood admirably apart, has reinvented the ghost story; in the process he has crafted a novel not only suspenseful but elegiac, consoling, and wholly absorbing."
—Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Interpreter of Maladies and Lowland
"In his ever-exquisite, lapidary prose, Howard Norman shows us in The Ghost Clause how we might best cherish our time, whether in this life or the next: through our restive, earthly passions, to the heart-song of language; and by our deep devotions to other beings. This is a lovely novel indeed."
—Chang-Rae Lee, author of Native Speaker and On a Full Sea
"Who better than a dead novelist to narrative this tale of married life, a missing child, and a Vermont farmhouse ripe for the haunting? The Ghost Clause is a meditation on many kinds of mystery, not the least of which is the persistent ongoingness of love."
—Alice McDermott, author of Charming Billy and The Ninth Hour
"...he has a keen eye for the way loss uneasily sticks with those left behind. What opens as a ghost story turns out to be something of a love story instead...he still has a knack for finding emotional resonances in muted, unlikely scenarios."
—Kirkus
"This is an astute, beautifully written novel."
—Publishers Weekly
"Thoughtful, elegiac, a good book to read by the fireside with a snifter of bourbon."
—Robert E. Brown, Library Journal
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