- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Cormorant Books Inc; First Edition edition (Mar 17 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1897151241
- ISBN-13: 978-1897151242
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #354,066 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Novel
Shortlisted for the 2009 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
Lillie Dempster of Saint John, New Brunswick, often imagines herself on the big screen. It is the one fantastic escape she can afford from her tragic daily life. In the burgeoning early years of the twentieth century, Lillie is a lot like the distressed damsels from the silent films she loves. Orphaned by the Great War and the Spanish influenza at fourteen, Lillie is forced to move in with her upstairs neighbour, Frank. She finds, however, that life does not get much better as a pretty young girl who draws unwanted interest from men wherever she goes.
When a group of filmmakers come to town to shoot a movie, she finally has the opportunity to live her film fantasies. Lillie makes her debut as a silent actress, standing in for the often temperamental Norma Shearer. Finding she has a future in Hollywood, Lillie makes her way west, but as she quickly learns, life in the spotlight is not always the glamour and glitz she thought it would be. Mark Blagrave delivers a novel that illustrates life on the east coast at the turn of the century, showing the onrush and upheaval of the modern world through the emergence of unions and social unrest, the horrors of the First World War, and the wonders of ever-evolving technology.
Shortlisted for the 2009 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
Lillie Dempster of Saint John, New Brunswick, often imagines herself on the big screen. It is the one fantastic escape she can afford from her tragic daily life. In the burgeoning early years of the twentieth century, Lillie is a lot like the distressed damsels from the silent films she loves. Orphaned by the Great War and the Spanish influenza at fourteen, Lillie is forced to move in with her upstairs neighbour, Frank. She finds, however, that life does not get much better as a pretty young girl who draws unwanted interest from men wherever she goes.
When a group of filmmakers come to town to shoot a movie, she finally has the opportunity to live her film fantasies. Lillie makes her debut as a silent actress, standing in for the often temperamental Norma Shearer. Finding she has a future in Hollywood, Lillie makes her way west, but as she quickly learns, life in the spotlight is not always the glamour and glitz she thought it would be. Mark Blagrave delivers a novel that illustrates life on the east coast at the turn of the century, showing the onrush and upheaval of the modern world through the emergence of unions and social unrest, the horrors of the First World War, and the wonders of ever-evolving technology.
About the Author
Mark Blagrave was born in the picturesque town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, and raised in Southern Ontario before finding his true home - New Brunswick. His short stories have been published regularly in leading Canadian literary journals including The New Quarterly and Fiddlehead, and his plays have been produced professionally as well as in university theatres. Mark now lives in Sackville, New Brunswick, where he is a Professor of English at Mount Allison University. Silver Salts is his first novel.
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