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.
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.
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May 2009 : Hardback
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April 2009 : Hardback
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March 2009 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
May 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Winter Vault Author(s): Anne Michaels ISBN: 1-4088-0108-6 / 978-1-4088-0108-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
April 2010 : Paperback
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March 2010 : Paperback
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March 2010 : Paperback
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April 2009 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
June 2009 : Audio CD
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May 2009 : Audio CD
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May 2009 : Audio CD
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Other Editions
October 2009 : Unknown
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April 2009 : Kindle edition
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