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A grieving widow embarks on a quest to vindicate her husband in Michael Redhill’s remarkable exploration of the power of place, home and memory.Toronto, 1856. J.G. Hallam takes up the new science of photography and embarks on a project to document the bleak young city. His ship sinks in a violent storm on Lake Ontario - and the strongbox holding the photographs is lost. Over 150 years later, the shoreline of the harbour has shifted dramatically. Shortly before his untimely death, Professor David Hollis speculates that the sunken ship lies where the city's new Union Arena is to be built. But his findings are met with howls of derision."Consolation is not merely a book about a city, however, it is a book about how a city comes to be. The most striking of Redhill’s narrative choices in this novel comes from its use of dual perspectives... Redhill’s narrative is exciting because its attitude seems completely backwards... In this juxtaposition, Redhill seems to the suggest that this city was once a place where passion was rewarded, but has become a place where it is merely tolerated... Against this blurring of past and present, Hollis’ story, in which the ability to touch the past is s

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Author

Redhill, Michael

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780759516526

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Contemporary Fiction