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Katherine Govier is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, who was born and raised in Alberta, Canada. She has received many honors, among them the Marian Engel Award and the City of Toronto Book Award for her novel Hearts of Flame. She has lived in Washington D.C. and London, and currently lives in Toronto.
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Canadian novelist Govier became intrigued with the tantalizing ellipsis in the record of John James Audubon's heroic if maniacal quest to paint as many bird species as he could find in the wilderness of North America. The undocumented interlude is the summer of 1833, when Audubon traveled along the treacherously stony, fog-beset, mosquito-infested coast of Labrador. Taking her cues from Audubon's stunning and dramatic portraits of the resilient birds of this hard land, Govier offers a bewitching and thought-provoking imagining of what might have transpired in Audubon's risky life, postulating a scandalous love affair with a woman painter and an unlikely friendship with the orderly Captain Henry Bayfield, who is painstakingly charting the hazardous coast. Keenly sensitive to the implications of Audubon's illegitimate Haitian birth, and fascinated by the terrible paradoxes that haunted him--that he kills what he loves most, wild birds, in order to study and paint them, and that although he loves his wife, he seeks romance elsewhere--Govier artfully conjures a brilliantly insightful and ravishingly sensuous tale of adventure and longing and portrays a seer of epic spirit who knows that his beloved feathered creatures and their wild environs are as imperiled as they are spectacular. Donna Seaman
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- PublisherRandom House Canada
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0679311815
- ISBN 13 9780679311812
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Brand New and Unread- First Edition, First Printing with full number line 1-10- Katherine Govier's Creation is a superb fictionalized account of the life of John James Audubon, with a focus on a journey the famous artist took to the coast of Labrador in 1833 to observe and paint birds in the wild. While there, he befriends the Captain Bayfield of the Royal Navy, the man responsible for charting the dangerous coastline. Through the short, stormy summer, Audubon longs for his days in the lush gardens of Charleston, South Carolina, where he has left behind the lovely Maria. With its detailed, sensuous, and at times highly suggestive descriptions of birds and flowers, and its palpable vision of Labrador's inhospitable coast, this is a book of rare beauty. Audubon is an artist obsessed with his project--a huge folio of all the birds of North America painted and engraved life-sized--and Govier captures this obsession perfectly by opening the reader's eyes and ears to what the painter sees and hears: "Tame song is beautiful, but wild song is haunting," "eggs . emitting their strange light," or, describing a crossbill, "feet . the golden brown of pine sap." But this is also the story of a man who was addicted to lying to hide his questionable roots (Audubon was Haitian) and who used and abused friends and family to realize his artistic vision. Govier's Audubon is a complex character of extraordinary energy and drive, who, in the end, begins to see how the magnificent fertility of nature will grow thinned and strained under man's relentless progress. A wonderful book. --Mark Frutkin. Seller Inventory # 010043
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