Skin Divers: Poems
by Michaels, Anne
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+, Not Price Clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0771058799
- ISBN 13
- 9780771058790
- Seller
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Synopsis
Anne Michaels is the author of three highly acclaimed poetry collections: The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner ’ s Pond (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award (these two volumes were published in a single-volume edition in 1997); and Skin Divers (1999). Fugitive Pieces (1996) is Anne Michaels’ multi-award-winning, internationally bestselling first novel. In Canada, it was #1, and on the national bestseller list for more than two years. The literary prizes the novel has garnered to date are: In Canada, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award; the City of Toronto Book Award; the Martin & Beatrice Fischer Award; the Trillium Book Award; and an Award of Merit from Heritage Toronto. In the U.K., the Guardian Fiction Award; the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction; and the Orange Prize for Fiction. In the U.S., the Harold Ribalow Award and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. And in Italy, Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Award. Anne Michaels lives in Toronto, where she is working on her next novel. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022265
- Title
- Skin Divers: Poems
- Author
- Michaels, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+, Not Price Clipped
- Edition
- Canadian First
- ISBN 10
- 0771058799
- ISBN 13
- 9780771058790
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Canadian Poetry
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