Norman gautreau biography
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Norman G. Gautreau: A native New Englander with a life-long love of the sea, Norman's first novel, Sea Room, won the prestigious Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction in , was an "All-City-Reads" choice in several cities, and was a BookSense(R).
Norman’s latest novel, The Light From the Dark Side of the Moon was published by Blank Slate Press in 2019. Ninety-two-year-old Henry Budge defies his family by escaping a Boston rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies marking the 70th observance of D-Day.
Before he dies, he hopes to confront the grief he's harbored for decades and to rekindle fading memories of Élodie Bedier, the French Resistance fighter he loved and lost 70 years earlier. The Light From the Dark Side of the Moon, has earned strong praise and won the Gold Medal in the Midwest Book Awards competition.
The critique of the Midwest editors in making the award is typical of the praise Norman consistently receives: “An exceptionally well crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and the kind of narrative storytelling style that grips the reader's total attention from cover to cover, The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon by Norman G.
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