Devotion
- Title
- Devotion / Howard Norman.
- Published by
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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| Status | FormatBook/Text | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberPR9199.3.N564 D48 2007 | Item locationOff-site |
Details
- Description
- 190 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Devotion begins with an announcement that a crime has taken place. In blunt, police-blotter language, we learn that on August 19, 1985, David Kozel and his father-in-law engaged in "assault by mutual affray." Once again Norman sets out to explore a great mystery: why seemingly quiet, contained people lose control. What could possibly enrage David enough that he would strike at the father of his new bride? Why would William, a gentle man who looks after an estate - and its flock of swans - in Nova Scotia, be so angry at the man who has just married his beloved only child, the ardent, red-haired Maggie? And what would lead Maggie to believe, after a whirlwind romance, that David has been unfaithful to her on their honeymoon?" "Norman lays bare the inventive stupidities people are capable of when wounded and confused. Devotion is an examination of love: romantic love (and its flip side, hate); filial love at its most tender; and, of course, love for the vast open spaces of Nova Scotia, which are very much at the center of this novel."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries