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Master storyteller Howard Norman draws on more than 30 years of visiting Nova Scotia for this remarkable ''book of selective memories.'' Combining stories, folklore, memoir, nature, poetry, and expository prose, the chapters of My Famous Evening ''may be seen as intersecting facets of reminiscence; there are certain refrains, themes, and preoccupations and I placed birds into as many of the book's nooks and crannies as possible.'' His goal: to portray the emotional dimensions of his experience.
Illustrated with photographs from Norman's own collection, this book offers a delightful, witty, and characteristically quirky take on a curious and beguiling region.
Read the story of Marlais Quire, a young woman who scandalously left her home in Nova Scotia in 1923 to travel to New York in an ill-fated attempt to attend a public reading by Joseph Conrad. Enjoy the delightful ''Birder's Notebook,'' a collection of stories about the Mi'kmaq cultural hero, Glooskap, and an account of Leon Trotsky's 1915 visit to Halifax, after a year in exile in New York, ''on his way to the October Revolution.'' For Norman, Nova Scotia is a place that provides a deep calm but also a ''sudden noir of the heart.''
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James Layman
reviewed My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations on May 07, 2017
My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations
I really don't know what to make of this quirky little book. Because of familial ties to Nova Scotia, I was drawn to the title immediately. I think I was expecting little vignettes of Nova Scotia life. Instead, the book is broken down into oddly disparate mini-books on a variety of really obscure subjects. I was taken aback, and put the book aside a number of times. However, each time I kept picking it up again and reading a little further. It took me a month to finish a 200 page book.
Not every subject worked for me. I got bored in the chapters called Love, Death and the Sea and Driving Miss Barry. On the other hand, I found the chapter called My Famous Evening weirdly compelling. I didn't know about Leon Trotsky's time in Halifax and thought that was interesting. Such variable subjects made for an uneven but intimately interesting book.
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