The Northern Lights

by Howard Norman

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Howard Norman's first novel tells the story of a boy named Noah and his friend Pelly. Noah has been raised in the remote, one house village of Padua Lake and Pelly lives in the Cree-Indian village of Quill. During the summers, Noah goes to stay with Pelly's family. Howard Norman is the author of two books of translation from North Canadian Algonquin languages - "The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems from the Swampy Cree Indians" which was awarded the Harold Morton Landon Prize by the Academy of American Poets and "Where the Chill Came From: Windigo Tales and Journeys". He received a Whitings Writer's Award for "The Northern Lights".
  • ISBN10 0571154743
  • ISBN13 9780571154746
  • Publish Date 17 April 1989 (first published January 1988)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 17 October 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 236
  • Language English