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The museum guard / a novel by Howard Norman.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.N564 M87 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norman, Howard A.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
- Summary:
- When the famous Dutch painting "Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam" arrives at a museum in Halifax, a disturbed young woman abandons her life in favor of the one she imagines for the painting's subject--even as being a Jew in Amsterdam becomes more perilous as the clouds of World War II gather in Europe.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note: "Return to Barbara Fisher 875 Park Ave Apt 8B".
- ISBN:
- 0374216495
- OCLC:
- 39235552
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