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BOOK REVIEW
Fugitive Pieces
A Michaels. Bloomsbury, 1998, £6.99, pp 294. ISBN 0 7475 3496 9
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"Athos, how big is the actual heart?" asks the young Jewish boy, Jakob Beer, in the novel Fugitive Pieces (page 113). The reply is: "Imagine the size and heaviness of a handful of earth" (page 113). Athos is an archaeologist and this perhaps is an archaeologist’s answer. A doctor might reply that, providing it is healthy, it is the size of a human fist. For us it is an amazingly powerful and resilient organ that drives the blood around the body some 70 or so times a minute for the whole of a human life. Poets and people in general though may see it as a symbol of love and the human spirit and for dealers in human anatomy it is as well to remember this.
Anne Michaels is a poet. It is said that it took her 10 years to write Fugitive Pieces, her first novel, and that
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