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In this week—and month—rich with noteworthy fiction writers, a particular high note is this most welcome Seattle return by award-winning Toronto novelist and poet Anne Michaels. She is the author of three beautiful collections of poetry—Skin Divers, Miner's Pond, The Weight of Oranges—and a masterpiece of a novel, Fugitive Pieces, which just received the Orange Prize Youth Panel Prize as a favorite selection from the Orange Prize's first fifteen years. This past year saw the long-awaited (a dozen years) arrival of Anne Michaels' second novel, The Winter Vault (new in paper, Vintage International). It was, and is, a poetically-charged arrival worthy of the wait. "The impossibility of rescuing the past from the ravages of time, balanced with the unlikelihood, even the absurdity, of using this poetic language to document those ravages—is ultimately the great theme of The Winter Vault ... Michaels never pretends there's a simple answer ... Literature is all the better for it." - The New York Times Book Review. "Who, in the real world, articulates thoughts on loss and yearning and death with such crystalline beauty? Perhaps no one. And yet those utterances produce a pang of instant recognition. Beneath their burnished surface, we identify an emotional truth ..." - Financial Times. "The Winter Vault abducts the imagination and breaks the heart."- Los Angeles Times.
