InhaltJane Urquhart führt mehrere außergewöhnliche Menschen zusammen, die Landkarten anfertigen. Da ist zunächst der Künstler Jerome, der sich allein auf der im Winter verlassenen Insel Timber Island im St. Lorenz-Strom absetzen lässt, um dort mit Fotos die Vergänglichkeit der Welt am Verfall ver...
Austin Fraser is an eighty three year old artist who is looking back on his life and the mistakes he has made. He is a man haunted by the memories of the people he never let into his life. One of them is George, a china painter he grew to know as a young man visiting the town of Davenport in the ...
This is a novel with many layers, complex and slow. The novel takes place in the summer of 1889.Patrick works for the government in Ottawa, but has been having issues and has come to stay with his aunt and uncle in Niagara Falls. He is also a published poet and his interest in nature has him wand...
Jane Urquhart's novel was not one I would have read on my own, but it was on my Canadian Literature reading list. Though her writing style is somewhat flowery, it is, for the most part, an easy read. It consists of three seperate parts, the second being tedious, especially in the beginning. When ...
Jane Urquhart has demonstrated in A MAP OF GLASS and THE UNDERPAINTER how a person can be transformed by the power of art and memory. The characters are sometimes made whole, or shattered, or both. In this fifth novel, her eccentric, parochial characters emerge from the harsh, often punishing 19t...
I discovered this book on a sales table at the local bookstore and bought it for the author and the mention of Emily Brontë on the back cover. While I had high expectations for it (Urquhart is one of Canada's finest authors), I was pleasently surprised: the novel not only explores the human expe...