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“A fascinating puzzle.”
–Margaret Atwood
“Marvellous.”
–Timothy Findley
–Margaret Atwood
“Marvellous.”
–Timothy Findley
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A troubled American woman travels to a small Ontario town, determined to find the mother she has never known. As she searches through dusty records and stirs up old memories among those around her, three young people emerge from the mists of the past…a beautiful woman named Jenny, a shy local boy named Russell, and a dark-eyed painter named Tom, who changes the course of Jenny and Russell’s lives. Historical reality and conjecture are skilfully interwoven with intrigue and suspense as these three move unwittingly toward tragedy.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tom Thomson..... the mystery clarified,
By Ruth Beatty (MARCO ISLAND, FL, US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Canoe Lake (Paperback)
I liked this book a lot. The author has a style of writing that befits the small town mindset of those years so long ago, when life was simpler without the glut of worldwide information that current technology foists upon us, whether we like it or not, speeding up time in a way that has us running just to keep up. The simplicity of life at that time and in that place MacGregor managed to create effectively, taking us into the stillness of virginal north country that we must now travel much farther to find if it still exists at all.
Approaching the story through Eleanor's quest kept the suspense sustained throughout, tracing lost information step by intriguing step with the final clarified resolution still appropriately obtuse. We can know what we think happened, but proof can never be possible. So be it. Younger readers may be impatient with the slowness of the story, but it accurately reflects those times, those values, when one's life was contained in a much smaller sphere, enlarging the impact of everything in it. Older readers know the reality of that. The tragedy is not only the story of these intertwined lives, but the loss to the world of the talents of this remarkable artist. This is a fascinating book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Canoe Lake (Paperback)
The author of this book worked very hard to create an interesting story around a real life mystery. Mostly, he succeeded, I like the characterisation, people rarely change and these characters are consistent. The pain and confusion they express is written excellently. I guess the disappointing thing is I wanted Tom to be a heroic figure...sadly, like all of us, he was far too human.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Canoe Lake (Paperback)
Ontario newspaper columnist Roy MacGregor weaves a fictional account of the life and death of Canada's most famous painter, who died by drowning in Ontario's Algonquin Park in 1917. Originally published as Shorelines to which MacGregor added an afterward suggesting that his story was based on certain crucial facts about his romance with Winnie Trainor. The latter edition admits that he is actually Winnie Trainor's great nephew -- her sister, Marie, married his uncle. MacGregor explains that the orginal book destroyed relations with that side of his family. This makes the book all the more interesting. Highly recommended.
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