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OverviewMolly, 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 and Mail Top 100 Book of 2005. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael MitchellPublisher: ECW Press,Canada Imprint: ECW Press,Canada Dimensions: Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 18.00cm Weight: 0.404kg ISBN: 9781550226768ISBN 10: 1550226762 Pages: 261 Publication Date: 30 September 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA tender memoir about death, memory and family, The Molly Fire is exquisitely written and produced. The author moves from the past to the present in prose that is as lucid as the photographs that illustrate this book. -- Governor General's Literary Awards Jury The elements of this story are straightforward, yet from them, Michael Mitchell has conjured a memoir of such delicacy and complexity that it deserves to stand with the best of its genre. -- The Globe and Mail ""The elements of this story are straightforward, yet from them, Michael Mitchell has conjured a memoir of such delicacy and complexity that it deserves to stand with the best of its genre."" -- The Globe and Mail Author InformationMichael Mitchell is a photographer, filmmaker, and the author of ""Monsters."" He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |