Howard Norman's 'The Haunting of L.' is a chilling fable of moral blindness and artistic ambition, from a writer of 'complexly tragic vision' (Richard Bernstein, 'The New York Times'). Peter is drawn more and more deeply to Kala as he reluctantly comes to share her obsession with 'spirit pictures,' photographs in which the faces of the long-dead or forgotten mysteriously appear -and as he sees more and more terrifying scenes come to life in the darkroom. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour.

Several months later, the uneasy menage a trois moves to Peter's native Halifax. Review: Twice-nominated for the National Book Award, Norman demonstrates.

Radin Heur-theirs is a macabre duet of art and violence.Īfter a strenuous journey, Peter arrives in Churchill on the very night of his employer's wedding only to fall under the spell of Vienna's brilliant and beautiful wife, Kala Murie. Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 326 pages, 24. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. There is a remainder mark on the top fore-edge. Across Canada, Linn has been arranging and photographing gruesome accidents for the private collection, in London, of a Mr. : The Haunting of L.: Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Peter's life is about to change in ways he scarcely could have imagined. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist, Vienna Linn, in the remote town of Churchill, Manitoba.

The final book in Howard Norman's Canadian Trilogy: a novel about spirit-photographs, adultery, and greed

The Haunting of L by Howard Norman