Close-Up
A Novel
Published on 30. March 2022
376 pages
978-0-578-94053-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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Short version:
Michelle Herman is the author of the novels Missing, Dog, and Devotion and the collection of novellas A New and Glorious Life, as well as three essay collections-The Middle of Everything, Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Like A Song-and a book for children, A Girl's Guide to Life. She writes a popular parenting column for Slate and has taught creative writing for many years at Ohio State.
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Michelle Herman is the author of the novels: Missing, Dog, and Devotion, and the collection of novellas, A New and Glorious Life. She is also the author of three essay collections: The Middle of Everything, Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Like A Song. Herman has been awarded an NEA Individual Artist's Fellowship, several Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships, the Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant in Fiction, and the Hadasash/Harold U. Ribalow Award for Best Jewish Book of the year. She writes a popular parenting column for Slate and is Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio State University, where she teaches in the MFA program she co-founded, and where she also founded and directs an interdisciplinary program in the arts. Find her at www.michelleherman.com
Michelle Herman is the author of the novels Missing, Dog, and Devotion and the collection of novellas A New and Glorious Life, as well as three essay collections-The Middle of Everything, Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Like A Song-and a book for children, A Girl's Guide to Life. She writes a popular parenting column for Slate and has taught creative writing for many years at Ohio State.
Long version:
Michelle Herman is the author of the novels: Missing, Dog, and Devotion, and the collection of novellas, A New and Glorious Life. She is also the author of three essay collections: The Middle of Everything, Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Like A Song. Herman has been awarded an NEA Individual Artist's Fellowship, several Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships, the Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant in Fiction, and the Hadasash/Harold U. Ribalow Award for Best Jewish Book of the year. She writes a popular parenting column for Slate and is Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio State University, where she teaches in the MFA program she co-founded, and where she also founded and directs an interdisciplinary program in the arts. Find her at www.michelleherman.com
