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The Molly Fire

By Michael Mitchell

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
1550226762, 9781550226768, 9781554906765
Open Library ID
OL22613201M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10957869 bytes)
Pages
250\315
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 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.

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