Close-Up
A Novel
Title Details
Pages: 376
Illustrations: b&w interior
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 03/15/2022
ISBN: 9-780-5789-0528-0
List Price: $24.95
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Close-Up
A Novel
A novel about mending relationships and the relationships that change us forever
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A story about the ties that bind us, Close-Up explores what makes, drives, complicates, and undermines our most important relationships.
In this artful, expansive novel, we follow five protagonists-Jacob, Martin, Caroline, Jeanie, and Jill-through love, marriage, parenthood, and the romance of friendship as they struggle to make sense of themselves and each other and of what makes for good art, good magic, and a good life. What follows is a story only Michelle Herman could write: one of missed connections and old grievances, of loneliness and longing, of rifts and reconciliations and redemption. Close-Up depicts the fraught entanglements of the relationships we're born into and those we choose-carefully or with abandon-with the precision and nuance that has characterized her work over the last thirty years.
—Valerie Martin, author of Property and I Give It to You
—Rosellen Brown, author of The Lake on Fire
Winner
Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence, Columbus State University