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A Map of Glass by Urquhart, Jane is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Map of Glass about?

In the typical Urquhart mold, A Map of Glass is a novel about the past, the land, and art, subjects found in many of her previous novels. A young artist, Jerome, is alone on Timber Island to take photos of temporary art creations, or "absences," he has dug in the snow. While there, he finds the body of Andrew Woodman, an Alzheimer's sufferer, frozen in the ice of the river. Later, an older woman, Sylvia, searches out Jerome and his girlfriend in Toronto. Slightly autistic, she has fled her doctor husband in rural eastern Ontario because she wants to talk to Jerome about Andrew, her lover. The three sections of the book are intelligently constructed, with the two contemporary sections framing the central section, which recounts the history of the Woodman family, 19th-century shipbuilders and hotelkeepers on Lake Ontario. Urquhart's writing is extremely resonant and always echoes her larger themes: "How wonderful the snow was; every change of direction, each whim, even the compulsion of hunger was marked on its surface, like memory, for a brief season." Her writing is also highly cerebral--little happens in this novel but there is an enormous quantity of thoughtful reflection. Th

Who reads A Map of Glass?

Author

Urquhart, Jane

Publisher

M P Publishing Limited

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781596921702

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.56 / 5 (896 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14