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A map of glass / Jane Urquhart.
LIBRA PR9199.3.U7 M36 2006 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Urquhart, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toronto (Ont.)--Fiction.
- Toronto (Ont.).
- Ontario--Toronto.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 371 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : MacAdam/Cage, 2006.
- Summary:
- Set in present-day Toronto and in the 19th-century world of rural Ontario timber barons, it opens with the wintry death of Alzheimer's sufferer Andrew, whose body, borne by an ice floe, runs aground on the small Lake Ontario island where artist Jerome McNaughton is seeking inspiration. The story steps back a century, to when Andrew's ancestors, owners of the same island, razed forests to build ships, then it jumps forward a year from the opening scene of Andrew's death, to when Sylvia, Andrew's married lover of 20 years, sets out to meet with Jerome, who discovered Andrew's body, and, through Jerome, to reconnect one last time with Andrew. Meanwhile, Jerome, the relationship-shy adult child of an abusive, alcoholic father, is slowly coming to trust that girlfriend Mira's love for him is real.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Urquhart, Jane. Map of glass.
- ISBN:
- 1596921706
- 9781596921702
- OCLC:
- 62858061
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