Michaels, Anne  , 1958- <br/><br/>
The winter vault 
/ Anne Michaels 
 - 1st U.S. ed 
 - New York  : Alfred A. Knopf  , 2009. 
 - 341 p.  ; 22cm. 
<br/><br/> Canadian poet/novelist's second work of fiction (after Fugitive Pieces) will likely be one of the more beautiful and startlingly written works you'll read this yearand one of the more infuriating. It's a meditation on loss, as exemplified by the flooding that obliterated towns and cemeteries, flora and fauna when the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Aswan Dam were created. Jean met Avery while trying to rescue plants that will be drowned by the St. Lawrence floodwaters; Avery was one of the seaway's engineers. Soon they are married and living on a houseboat on the Nile as Avery works to save Abu Simbel. What can't be saved is a millennia-old culture whose devastation is chronicled in eye-opening detail. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307270825 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009003801 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Canadians----Egypt----Fiction<br/>Engineers----Canada----Fiction<br/>Engineering----Social aspects----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Abu Sunbul (Egypt)----Fiction<br/>Aswan Dam (Egypt)----Fiction<br/>Saint Lawrence Seaway----Ficiton
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Psychological fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR9199.3.M453  / W56 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC MIC