In haunting vignettes, 'Held' considers whether love can survive death
Anne Michaels’s novel may be one of the most romantic of all time.
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Anne Michaels’s novel may be one of the most romantic of all time.
Held is not a typical generational epic; the connections between its ideas and cast of characters are at times clear, at others purposefully ambiguous
Dazzling lyrical snapshots recall the dreamlike style of Fugitive Pieces in the poet’s third novel, a fluid examination of history, memory and generational trauma
Anne Michaels’s new novel opens on a battlefield in France in 1917, as John lies wounded in the snow. The dozens of short passages, some as concise as two words (“Memory seeping”), capture John’s experience, both past and present, with such painful beauty that his life is
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