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Michael Redhill


Michael Redhill is the publisher and one of the editors of Brick, a literary magazine, and the author of the novel Martin Sloane, a finalist for the 2001 Giller Prize, and the short story collection Fidelity. He has also written four poetry collections, including Asphodel, published in 1997, and Light-Crossing, published in 2001. His most recent works for the theatre are Goodness and Building Jerusalem, winner of a Dora Award.

Consolation, Redhill’s second novel, was shortlisted for the 2007 Toronto Book Award. In an interview with the Edmonton Journal, he described how he was inspired by a real photograph taken in...

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Consolation
Written by Michael Redhill

eBook | 480 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37195-9 (0-307-37195-6)

February 24, 2009 | $21.00



“There is a vast part of this city with mouths buried in it . . . . Mouths capable of speaking to us. But we stop them up with concrete and build over them and whatever it is they wanted to say gets whispered down empty alleys and turns into wind...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Consolation
Written by Michael Redhill

Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-65951-2 (0-385-65951-2)

July 31, 2007 | $21.00



“There is a vast part of this city with mouths buried in it . . . . Mouths capable of speaking to us. But we stop them up with concrete and build over them and whatever it is they wanted to say gets whispered down empty alleys and turns into wind...

Also available as an eBook.

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Fidelity
Written by Michael Redhill

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-65946-8 (0-385-65946-6)

April 15, 2003 | $25.00



From acclaimed poet and Giller-nominated novelist Michael Redhill comes Fidelity, a subtle but searing collection of short fiction.

By turns brooding, strange, and funny, Fidelity probes the blandishments of temptation, the swooning submission to concupiscence, the illusory redemption of desire, the ambivalence at the heart of the most intimate trust, and, most...


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Lost Classics

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections - Books & Reading; Fiction - Classics; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-0-676-97300-6 (0-676-97300-0)

October 15, 2002 | $21.95



An Anchor Books Original

Seventy-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...


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Martin Sloane
Written by Michael Redhill

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-385-25987-3 (0-385-25987-5)

October 30, 2001 | $19.95



In 1984, Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters Martin Sloane's art while visiting a Toronto gallery. Flush with the confidence of youth, she strikes up a correspondence with the older artist, and eventually the two become lovers. Introduced to a constancy of love she has never known, Jolene...