Critical Praise

"An ambitious study of the ties between art, conscience and history."

——Marla Schwaller, Detroit Free Press

"Howard Norman has done it again. The acclaimed author of The Bird Artist has produced another penetrating examination of a small life that opens gradually to reveal profound truths about life, art, morality and nobility."

——Deborah Hornblow, The Orlando Sentinel

"The Museum Guard provides more pleasure than many novels can provide in 10 times as much prose."

——Eileen Pollack, The Boston Sunday Globe

"Deftly mysterious…Norman’s new novel fairly glimmers with the originality of his complexly tragic vision. A Gothic power intensified by the very leanness and clarity of Norman’s prose."

——Richard Bernstein, The New York Times