The Molly Fire
Paperback (01 Dec 2004)
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Molly, an eighty-year-old artist, drowns in her bath while living alone on Vancouver Island. When her son, Toronto writer and photographer Michael Mitchell, arrives from the east the next day he finds a studio full of her paintings and a treasure trove of family papers that take him on a romantic journey to the far corners of the world and back as far as the early 18th century. Illustrated with Molly's art and her son's evocative photographs of her empty house and studio, The Molly Fire collages dance cards, war diaries, menus, naval dispatches, and news reports to create a vivid and moving memoir as well as a poignant meditation on loss and identity. Shortlisted for the 2005 Governor General's Award, the 2005 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and a Globe & Mail Top 100 Book of 2005.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781550226768 |
Publisher: | ECW Press |
Imprint: | ECW Press |
Pub date: | 01 Dec 2004 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 261 |
Weight: | 404g |
Height: | 180mm |
Width: | 128mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |