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false <![CDATA[The Winter Vault]]> 4682252 14 From the author of the acclaimed Fugitive Pieces, her first work of fiction in more than a decade: a mesmerizing love story that juxtaposes historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives. In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settle into a houseboat on the Nile just below Abu Simbel. Avery is one of the engineers responsible for the dismantling and reconstruction of the temple, a “machine-worshipper” who is nonetheless sensitive to their destructive power. Jean is a botanist by vocation, passionately interested in everything that grows. They met on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, witnessing the construction of the Seaway as it swallowed towns, homes, lives. Now, at the edge of another world about to be inundated, they create their own world, exchanging “the innocent memories we don’t know we hold until given the gift of the eagerness of another.” But when tragedy strikes, they return to separate lives in Toronto: Avery to school to study architecture; and Jean into the orbit of Lucjan, a Polish émigré artist whose haunting tales of occupied Warsaw pull her further from Avery but offer her the chance to assume her most essential life. Stunning in its explorations of both the physical and emotional worlds of its characters, intensely moving and lyrical, The Winter Vault is a radiant work of fiction. 4732807 28 4 2009 The Winter Vault total:120|5:24|4:40|3:29|2:17|1:10| 120 411 346 56 5 2 false false Fri Jul 24 07:04:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 12:16:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Sep 07 15:58:17 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 20:48:34 -0700 2009
Michaels, Anne. The Winter Vault. Knopf. May. 2009. c.352p. ISBN 978-0-307-27082-5. $25. F

Canadian poet/novelist's second work of fiction (after Fugitive Pieces) will likely be one of the more beautiful and startl...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 07:39:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 07:58:45 -0700 2009 Anne Michaels has published several acclaimed poetry collections, including The Weight of Oranges and Miner's Pond. Her background as a poet shines through in The Winter Vault, which awed critics with its many elegant, vibrant, and luminous passages and Michaels's endless curiosity about science, en...

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