Close-up : a novel / Michelle Herman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herman, Michelle, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Loneliness--Fiction.

Loneliness.

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Magicians--Fiction.

Magicians.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

368 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Columbus, Ohio] : Columbus State University Press, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Place of publication from publisher's website.

"Excerpts of this novel appeared, in somewhat different forms, in Townsend Literary Journal and Valparaiso Fiction Review."--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780578905280

0578905280

OCLC:

1285553171