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A Map of Glass: Library Edition
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Binding: MP3 CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780786175666
Edition: MP3 Una
ISBN: 0786175664
Label: Blackstone Audiobooks
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2006-04
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Studio: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Editorial Review:I have not been close to many people, Jerome, but I know, that once they leave us they become insubstantial, and no matter how we try we cannot hold them .The dead don't answer when we call them. The dead are not our friends. Jerome, a young artist, while spending a few months in the wilds of Northern Ontario, stumbles across a man frozen in the forest. A year later, Sylvia, a middle aged woman, shows up at his studio in Toronto. She is the dead man's lover. Andrew's ice-encased body has haunted Jerome's dreams; Sylvia has never recovered from losing the only man she has ever loved. And now before she forgets, before the past slips irretrievably through her fingers, she wants to recount her story to the stranger who discovered him. It is a story that stretches long and wide: it begins with Syvia and the illness which prevents her from being touched by anyone; her barren marriage to a doctor and a chance encounter with Andrew, a land surveyor; their shared passion for the land and its history; the beginning of desire and their secret affair; the stories he tells her of his ancestors and his tragic illness that finally separates them. Tender, elegaic and beautifully written, Map of Glass is a deeply romantic and moving novel about the fragility of love and memory, and the redemptive power of stories.
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... even if it is just a trace - all but invisible - it is there for those willing to look hard enough." Like her protagonists, Jane Urquhart delights in following those traces in a landscape. Southern Ontario, an important backdrop in her previous, exquisite novel, The Stone Carvers, is explored here primarily as an essential part of a family history. Going back some hundred years, "Timber Island" is the intricate setting for this profound and brilliantly developed multi-faceted novel that explores ... Read More
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[5 stars plus] This wondrous and evocative novel begins with a man walking over the ice to a distant island. He is so stricken with Alzheimer's that he cannot even remember his own name, Andrew, but the four pages in which Jane Urquhart describes his situation are almost poetry: "The whole unnamed world is so beautiful to him now that he is aware he has left behind vast, unremembered territories, certain faces, and a full orchestra of sounds that he has loved." He is walking, as one of the other characters ... Read More
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I had mixed feelings about this book, but by the end I really liked it. It was a very interesting exploration of memory, loss, impermanence, and the fragmentary nature of life. It was a very atmospheric book, evocative and descriptive, not a driven by twists and turns of plot or dialogue, but it is thought provoking, and multi-layered. I am surprised by how long it has stayed with me, and how many times I find myself thinking about it and recommending it to others...
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Jane Urquhart's new novel, A Map of Glass, is a richly rextured and complex work of genius. Magnificent descriptive passages illuminate and delight.
This novel is deeply insightful,exceptionally thought provoking and remarkably moving.
Intelligent readers eveywhere, will be delighted by this rare literary jewel.
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The first chapter of this book is unusual and interesting, describing a photographer, Jerome, and the photos he takes on an island near Lake Ontario. Then the story switches to the other main character, Sylvia, an autistic woman in her 40s or 50s. Both characters' stories eventually become preposterous, told in a poetic language that got on my nerves.
Everyone speaks as if they were characters in a pretentious novel. What a surprise -- they are!
I also couldn't make sense of all the ... Read More
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