Martin Sloane
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 relaxes into the rituals of being someone's other half. She learns Martin's story and cherishes it as her own. He becomes a fixture in her life, a star in her sky.
And then, he vanishes. There is no hint of his fate, no chain of cause to be followed. Over a long fall, the shock slowly hardening into fact, Jolene sheds her life, losing everything, including her oldest friend, Molly,…
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October 30, 2001MICHAEL REDHILL is the author of the novels Martin Sloane, shortlisted for the Giller Prize and winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, Consolation, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and most recently, Bellevue Square, winner of the 2017 Giller Prize. He has written a novel for young adults, six collections of poetry, and four plays, including the internationally celebrated Goodness. He has also written a series of crime novels under the name Inger Ash Wolfe, one of which, The Calling, was made into a movie with Susan Sarandon and Donald Sutherland. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.