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The museum guard / a novel by Howard Norman.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PR9199.3.N564 M87 1998

Overview

Summary: A Jewish woman in 1938 Nova Scotia becomes obsessed with a painting in a museum. It is called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and is on loan from Holland. The woman decides to live the subject's life, a momentous decision as the Nazis are on the march.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Norman, Howard A.
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998
Locale: Nova Scotia
Edition: First edition

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 0374216495
9780374216498
Physical Description: 310 pages ; 21 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Jews--Nova Scotia--Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction. Art museums--Fiction. Nova Scotia--Fiction. Orphans--Fiction. Fiction.

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