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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?
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Urquhart's passion for the past (_The Stone Carvers_) and the land (_The Underpainters_, winner of the Governor General's Award in Canada) are at full poetic play in this intricate story of love, loss and memory. Set in present-day Toronto and in the 19th-century world of rural Ontario timber barons, it opens with the wintry death of Alzheimer's sufferer Andrew, whose body, borne by an ice floe, runs aground on the small Lake Ontario island where artist Jerome McNaughton is seeking inspiration. The story steps back a century, to when Andrew's ancestors, owners of the same island, razed forests to build ships, then it jumps forward a year from the opening scene of Andrew's death, to when Sylvia, Andrew's married lover of 20 years, sets out to meet with Jerome, who discovered Andrew's body, and, through Jerome, to reconnect one last time with Andrew. Meanwhile, Jerome, the relationship-shy adult child of an abusive, alcoholic father, is slowly coming to trust that girlfriend Mira's love for him is real. Urquhart reveals all of their haunted personal histories in the lyrical first and third parts of the novel. But it's in the compact family-sa
Who reads A Map of Glass?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Urquhart, Jane
- Publisher
- MacAdam/Cage Publishing, Incorporated
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781596922136
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.56 / 5 (896 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14