A Map of Glass
by Jane Urquhart
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747581495
- ISBN 13
- 9780747581499
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Bloomsbury, London, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 371 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Bloomsbury, London, 2005. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Jerome is a young earth-artist spending a few months on an island in Lake Ontario. His idyll is shattered when he stumbles across a man frozen in the ice near the shore. A year later, Sylvia, a middle aged woman, shows up at his studio in Toronto. She was the lover of the dead man. 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, Sylvia wants to recount her story to the stranger who found Andrew. It is a story that stretches long and wide, beginning with Sylvia's childhood and mysterious illness; her barren marriage to a doctor obsessed by the illness and then her chance encounter with the historical geographer Andrew Woodman: their shared passion for the land and its history, the beginnings of desire, the stories he tells her of his ancestors. In the end, his own tragic illness is revealed, an illness that finally separates them. Tender, elegiac 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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0747581495. ISBN/EAN: 9780747581499. Inventory No: 17060255.. 9780747581499
Synopsis
An aging Andrew Woodman stumbles through a snowstorm, slowly losing his strength, his language, and his memories of the once-familiar island landscape around him. When Jerome, a young artist on a remote island retreat, discovers Andrew's body frozen in the ice later that winter, the rich narrative tapestry of A Map of Glass begins.
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Details
- Seller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 17060255
- Title
- A Map of Glass
- Author
- Jane Urquhart
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0747581495
- ISBN 13
- 9780747581499
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; A Map of Glass
- Bookseller catalogs
- General; Fiction;
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