Consolation

Resource Information

The work Consolation represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Consolation

Statement of responsibility

Michael Redhill

Creator

• Redhill, Michael, 1966-

Subject

• Fiction
• Historians
• Historians -- Fiction
• Historians' spouses
• Historians' spouses -- Fiction
• History
• Ontario -- Toronto
• Electronic books
• Photographers -- Fiction
• Photographs
• Photographs -- Fiction
• Toronto (Ont.) -- History -- Fiction
• Photographers

Genre

• Fiction
• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Late summer, the August air already cooling, and some of the migrators are beginning south. Hear the faint booming high up against windows before sunrise, pell-mell flight into sky-mirrored bank towers. Good men and women collect them and carry their stunned forms around in paper bags, try to revive them. Lost art of husbandry. By the time the sun is up, the reflected heat from the day before is already building again in glass surfaces. A man is standing by the lakeshore at the Hanlan's Point ferry dock. Cicadas in the grass near the roadway, cars passing behind the hotel. The ferry rush hour is over already at 8:15, and the Hanlan's Point ferry is the least frequent of them all, as it takes passengers to a buggy, unkempt part of the Toronto Islands. But it is the most peaceful ride, ending close to wilderness. The Duchess. He sees it departing for the city from its island dock, on the other side of the harbour. He stretches his arm out at eye level, like he once taught his daughters to do, and the ferry travels over the palm of his hand

Cataloging source

TOH

Dewey number

812/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9199.3.R418

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult