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Sto caricando le informazioni... Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Himdi Roy MacGregor
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I learned a lot from this book. Having grown up in this little town, and walking those very streets, having paddled this lake hundreds of times with my father and hearing this story, yet never really knowing the connection Tom Thomson had with my town. This book had me with the first few chapters! The deceptions of the area are so vivid that you can't but be swept away to Algonquin at a time when the park was just beginning. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST 2011nbsp;- Ottawa Book Award for Non-Fiction Roy MacGregor's lifelong fascination with Tom Thomson first led him to write Canoe Lake, a novel inspired by a distant relative's affair with one of Canada's greatest painters. Now, MacGregor breaks new ground, re-examining the mysteries of Thomson's life, loves and violent death in the definitive non-fiction account. Why does a man who died almost a century ago and painted relatively little still have such a grip on our imagination? The eccentric spinster Winnie Trainor was a fixture of Roy MacGregor's childhood in Huntsville, Ontario. She was considered too odd to be a truly romantic figure in the eyes of the town, but the locals knew that Canada's most famous painter had once been in love with her, and that she had never gotten over his untimely death. She kept some paintings he gave her in a six-quart basket she'd leave with the neighbours on her rare trips out of town, and in the summers she'd make the trip from her family cottage, where Thomson used to stay, on foot to the graveyard up the hill, where fans of the artist occasionally left bouquets. There she would clear away the flowers. After all, as far as anyone knew, he wasn't there: she had arranged at his family's request for him to be exhumed and moved to a cemetery near Owen Sound. As Roy MacGregor's richly detailed Northern Light reveals, not much is as it seems when it comes to Tom Thomson, the most iconic of Canadian painters. Philandering deadbeat or visionary artist and gentleman, victim of accidental drowning or deliberate murder, the man's myth has grown to obscure the real viewnbsp;-- and the answers to the mysteries are finally revealed in these pages. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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