Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill


			‘Martin Sloane is a deeply moving first novel that reveals human truths with grace and humour. Michael Redhill’s portrait of the artist and the magnetic influence on those around him is profound and full of affection. This is a book of constant surprises.’
			Michael Ondaatje

			‘Michael Redhill is a writer of considerable humanity and insight. His first novel is a highly crafted and subtly disturbing delight.’
			A L Kennedy

			‘Martin Sloane is such a good novel it is hard to believe it is Michael Redhill’s first. Lyrical, funny, moving, and writerly in the most engaging way, it deserves a wide readership.’
			Wayne Johnston

			‘I read a superb novel yesterday, the kind that makes you lousy company for hours afterwards - because you want to mull over its details rather than be social, because you prefer its world to the one that, at dinner, you suddenly find yourself contending with… [Martin Sloane] is accomplished, considered, polished - a novel of depths and many aspects.’
	In 1984, Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters Martin Sloane’s work while visiting a Toronto gallery. She strikes up a correspondence with the older artist, and eventually they become lovers. And then, without warning, without a word, he vanishes. There is no hint of his fate, no chain of cause and effect to be followed. Over the following months, Jolene sheds her life, losing everything, including her oldest friend, Molly, to her grief. Ten years pass, and Jolene begins to live with Martin’s disappearance. But then the opportunity to confront her ghost arises. Word comes from, of all people, Molly, that someone named Sloane has been exhibiting in Irish galleries. Jolene travels to Dublin, where she is reluctantly reunited with her old friend. Together, the two women become lost in a jumble of pasts as they try to piece together what happened to Martin Sloane. Seamlessly crafted and beautifully written, Martin Sloane evokes the mysteries of love and art, the weight of history, and what it means to bear memory for the missing and the dead.		National Post

			‘Michael Redhill’s first novel seems destined to become a small classic, one of those books handed from friend to friend… With this luminous, wonderful book, Michael Redhill highlights the complexities of human relationships in profound and unexpected ways.’
			Books in Canada

			‘Redhill’s language is masterful ... Mild and beautiful on the surface, Martin Sloane has explosives buried quietly in its emotional landscape…’
			Globe and Mail

			A stunning first novel, already a huge critical success and a bestseller in Canada, which explores the power of memory, love and art. READ AN EXTRACT READ AN INTERVIEW

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