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Michael Redhill Õ 4 Free read Consolation Read & Download ó PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Lding the photographs is lostA century and a half later and the shoreline of the harbour has shifted dramatically Professor David Hollis speculates that the sunken ship containing this important historical record lies in the landfill where the city's new Union Arena is to be built But his findings are met only with howls of derision from his c. This was a really enjoyable read a story of early Toronto 1850ish if I remember correctly intertwined a story of another Toronto family in 1997 Each half of the story has a pretty similar weighting and I didn t mind switching between the two because it didn t happen too often and both halves were entertaining and written in similar stylesThe modern day story is woven around the death of David Hollis a historical researcher and the historical story meets up with his research in a way that s not too obvious but such that we re recognisably reading one story rather than twoThe characters were the best aspect of the writing and felt like real people not always consistent not always nice not always understanding what their actions would mean but not completely ignorant of this either However for a story that is very much about a place the location didn t really come alive to me except in a few passages in the historical story I liked the fact that the story involved early photography though and these bits of the story worked very well especially as some old photographs are included in the bookI m not sure if I think it s Booker prize winning material or even shortlist material although it s a weighty book it was a uick read and didn t seem terribly substantial Definitely a good read though

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Michael Redhill Õ 4 Free read Consolation Read & Download ó PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook OlleaguesThree months later Hollis is dead and his grieving widow Marianne embarks on a furtive unsettling uest to vindicate her husband From her hotel room overlooking the excavation site where the arena is to stand she watches and waits for a piece of the past to reappear that might alleviate the anguish of these civic and private vanishings. After reading Bellevue Suare I was determined to read all of Michael Redhill s books my Goodreads challenge for 2019 He has become My Favourite Author overnight Consolation is the second Redhill book that I have read but was disappointed It s well written and thoughtfully presented with its zigzagging timelines I just found it too slow lacking the zany twists of Bellevue Suare But Michael Redhill is still My Favourite Author and the challenge is still on

Michael Redhill Õ 4 Free read Consolation Read & Download ó PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook It is 1856 Toronto Unable to make a living in the New World from his trade English apothecary JG Hallam takes up the new science of photography and embarks on a grand project to document the bleak young city But returning from an exhibition of these images in England Hallam's ship is lost in a violent storm on Lake Ontario and the strongbox ho. He put it a recently excavated clay pipe into my hand and closed my fingers over it and he said the past really happened You held it in your hand You know something most people don t Consolation 435 Consolation changed the way I look at Toronto the city where I live This was not only because it asked me to imagine things like black bears walking down King St or a graveyard in fact a necropolis at the now busy intersection of Yonge and Bloor which added a vivid historical layer to these locations but also because it illustrated that knowing something about how my home city grew from woodland to metropolis is important Redhill s book show that a place so full of significance to me by virtue of its familiarity was invested with value and meaning by people who died long before I existed To carry a heightened awareness of this the idea of the possibility of this is to experience your city differently But Consolation is not just a pean to Toronto and its history Redhill s novel also elegantly and movingly explores themes of loss and family The story s split between two periods facilitates this well In sections set in the present the reader slowly collects a portrait of David an ALS afflicted father and husband whose academic discovery and death sets the plot in motion through his grieving family Each member struggles to define what the absence of David means to them and as they go a picture of David becomes present for the reader The other sections of the book that take place in 1850s Toronto provide a structural inversion In 1850s Toronto it is the father and husband Jem that grapples with the absence of his family who remain in England a three week postal delay away A failing business and loneliness presses him toward new friendships and opportunities and in creating them Jem gains a deeper understanding of himself Similarly elegant symmetries abound in this book as does Redhill s beautiful insightful prose Both work together to illustrate among other many things that the connections between past and present are not as faint as we it is sometimes all too easy to precieve them to be

• Paperback
• 480
• Consolation
• Michael Redhill
• English
• 03 August 2018
• 9780099466253