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Geologies of silence
Rauch, Molly E. | April 7, 1997 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Fugitive Pieces," by Anne Michaels. In Michaels's powerful first novel, grief is rendered as monumental and patient as a glacier, working its damage an inch at a time. Michaels, an award-winning poet from Toronto, assembles "Fugitive Pieces" from very short, often disconnected sections; the cumulative effect of the staccato structure is close to incantatory. The novel's focus is on two men who have survived the Holocaust, literally in one case, figuratively in the other. Both face the icy crush of grief and both try to escape it by asking the unanswerable: "If you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?"

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FUGITIVE Pieces (Book); MICHAELS, Anne; BOOKS; FICTION; POETS; HOLOCAUST survivors
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