Northern Light The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him

Name: Northern Light The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him
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ISBN: 9780307357403

ISBN-10: 0307357406

ISBN-13: 9780307357403

Edition: 2010

Authors: Roy MacGregor

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Publication date: 9/6/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.00" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Roy MacGregor has spent a lifetime playing and writing about Hockey. In 2012 he was named the media inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame and received the Elmer Ferguson Award for distinguished writing on the game. His acclaimed books on hockey include Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey which was shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, Home Game , written with Ken Dryden, and Wayne Gretzky's Ghost .