Novels
- Martin Sloane (2001)
- Consolation (2006)
- Saving Houdini (2015)
- Bellevue Square (2017)
Collections
- Fidelity (2003)
Plays
- Building Jerusalem (2001)
- Goodness (2005)
Novellas
- Red Hand (2012)
Anthologies edited
- Blues and True Concussions (2000)
Non fiction
- Lost Classics (2000)
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Michael Redhill Books Overview
Martin Sloane
What does it really mean to love another person? The question hovers like a persistent wisp of fog over the story of Martin Sloane, an Irish born artist who creates intricate, object filled boxes, and Jolene Iolas, the young American woman who finds herself drawn first to Martin Sloanes art and then to the man himself. The story of their relationship across two decades, and of Jolenes search for Martin Sloane when one day he disappears from their home without warning or explanation, is told in a novel that brilliantly and movingly explores the vagaries of love and friendship, the burdens of personal history, and the enigmatic power of art. The first book in Back Bays new program of publishing one work of quality fiction per season in trade paperback original format. A novel that will appeal to readers of such trade paperback original bestsellers as Penelope Fitzgeralds The Blue Flower, Jhumpa Lahiris Interpreter of Maladies, and Ahdaf Soueifs The Map of Love. Redhill drew inspiration from the work of Joseph Cornell, a fixture in the New York art world from the 1940s 1970s. Martin Sloane is already a critically acclaimed bestseller in Canada.
Consolation
From the award winning author of ‘Martin Sloane’ and ‘Fidelity’ comes a riveting story of two families in different centuries one searching for the past, the other creating a record of it.
Fidelity
Michael Redhill conjures up many unexpected twists in 10 richly textured stories that range from the darkness of family silences to the hilarity of people caught in their own snares. The vulnerabilities of Redhill’s characters are our own: a business trip affair leaves a man humbled in ways he cannot anticipate; a young lover discovers she does not understand what connects people to each other; a traveling salesman, in trying to remain friends with his ex wife, keeps breaking her heart; and a teenager’s shocking sexuality inflicts wounds on her family. Fidelity probes the nature of temptation and desire, the ambivalence at the heart of our most intimate trusts, and the paradox of betrayal, which is that we cannot deceive others unless we have first deceived ourselves. With his unflinching attention to emotional detail, Redhill proves once again to be ‘a writer of considerable humanity and insight.’ A. L. Kennedy
Building Jerusalem
Building Jerusalemtakes place on New Year’s Eve, 1899, in the Grange, one of the grandest houses in Toronto. Now the home of the celebrated writer Goldwyn Smith, it is to be the scene of a New Year s party for four auspicious guests. When their host is delayed, the guests are entertained instead by his beautiful young niece, Alice. Little do they know what surprises await as the century creeps closer.
Goodness
This remarkable autobiographical play by the award winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian doll like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in confidence, a terrible tale of murder and injustice and he promises never to repeat the story. Goodness is the writer breaking his word. Recently divorced, Michael Redhill goes to Poland to get away frm his life and to do some research on the Holocaust. Thwarted by witnesses unwilling to talk, he returns home via England, but in London is introduced to someone who can tell him a ‘real’ story of evil. Through this reluctant witness, Redhill learns of a genocide. He encounters, through the memory of the storyteller, an alleged war criminal, about to be put on trial. But this is an old man with Alzheimer’s who can no longer remember the time his crimes were allegedly committed. Has his guilt dissolved with his memory? Could he be pretending to be ill in order to escape punishment? The witness conjures for Redhill the war criminal’s passionate and beautiful daughter, who will defend her father at all costs. There is also the prosecuting attorney, who has much in common with the old man whose destruction he seeks. As well as an uncomfortable attraction to his daughter. Each is drawn to the other. All is witnessed by a female prison guard the one who tells the playwright, years later, what really happened in the quest to give a nation some closure. Everyone’s story is compelling, and the ending is as unexpected as it is shocking. Who do we believe? A prison guard still wounded by history? A writer suffering from heartache? A dying war criminal? What is our responsibility? Who does memory serve? Did the past really happen? And if it did, who has a claim on it?Goodness is a play about what happens in the gaps between experiencing, telling and hearing.
Lost Classics
An Anchor Books OriginalSeventy four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost great books overlooked, under read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission. Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader’s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, being lovers of books, we ve pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives, telling people about books that exist only on our own shelves, or even just in our own memory. Anyone who has ever been changed by a book will find kindred spirits in the pages of Lost Classics. Each of the editors has contributed a lost book essay to this collection, including Michael Ondaatje on Sri Lankan filmmaker Tissa Abeysekara s Bringing Tony Home, a novella about a mutual era of childhood. Also included are Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Doctor Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905; Russell Banks on the off beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene the slightly ditzy cousin of Graham; Bill Richardson on a children s book for adults by Russell Hoban; Ronald Wright on William Golding s Pincher Martin; Caryl Phillips on Michael Mac Liammoir s account of his experiences on the set of Orson Welles s Othello, and much, much more.
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