Held 9781526659125 Paperback

Held

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

Michaels, Anne (author)

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**The international bestseller****A Guardian Book of the Autumn 2023****Chosen as a book of the year by the independent.co.uk**'Michaels’s writing continues to stand head and shoulders above most other fiction' OBSERVER'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity' MARGARET ATWOOD'Michaels is exceptionally open to beauty' GUARDIAN The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces: a soaring and luminous story of chance and change_________________________________________________1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. Held is a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion.'I am blown away by the scale, beauty, weave and thinking of this book ... It dances with words, time and ideas in a way that seems to reinvent everything I know about the novel' RACHEL JOYCE

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    Life cannot be dismissed

    Posted by Maurice ter Bogt on 16th Dec 2024

    There is a moment when your life must become your own. You must claim it from all the other stories you´ve been given. Other stories that have been handed down and thrust upon you. Or that you´ve been left holding while someone else claimed theirs. The life unchosen, left behind of cowardice o…

    There is a moment when your life must become your own. You must claim it from all the other stories you´ve been given. Other stories that have been handed down and thrust upon you. Or that you´ve been left holding while someone else claimed theirs. The life unchosen, left behind of cowardice or shame, does not wither. Instead, without exception, it grows rampant and chokes the path ahead

Authors:
Michaels, Anne
Year Published:
2024
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781526659125
Number of Pages:
240
Place of Publication:
London
Publication Date:
26/09/2024
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language:
English
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU:
9781526659125

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