Description
Anne Michael's first novel Fugitive Pieces won the Orange Prize and the Guardian Fiction Award in 1997 and has sold over 120,000 copies in paperback For fans of John Berger, Michael Ondaatje and The Siege by Helen Dunmore Winner of the Giller Prize Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Award
About the Author
Anne Michaels is the author of three collections of poetry: The Weight of Oranges, which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner's Pond, which won the Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award; and Skin Divers. Her first novel, Fugitive Pieces, was published by Bloomsbury in 1997 to worldwide critical acclaim. It won the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award among others, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Canadian Booksellers Association Author of the Year Award. It was also made into a major motion picture. Anne Michaels has also composed music for the theatre. Born in 1958, Anne Michaels lives in Toronto.
Reviews
'Writing of dangerously beautiful intensity ... magnificent' Sunday Telegraph 'Michaels is a novelist of unusual and compelling power' The Times 'A rich, full book, written with the lyricism... a bigger, bolder, more confident version of her earlier work' Guardian 'Read this book like poetry, or rather hear it like music ... Anne Michaels guides us to the top of some extraordinary peaks of feeling and perception' Independent
Awards
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2010.
Book Information
ISBN 9781408801086
Author Anne Michaels
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 21mm