Close-Up
- Authors
- Michelle Herman
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Tags
- academe , academic life , alienation , american academe , american domestic , american experience , american family , american families , american literary life , artist in academe , artists in the academy , contemporary judaism , cultural history , cultural performance , disclosure , domestic drama , domestic performativity , families , family , family drama , family history , family performance , family secrets , family traditions , identity , illusion , jewish academe , jewish experience , jewish families , jewish writers , judaism , magic , magic shows , magic tricks , mystery , other , performance , performativity , performing , reality and illusion , secrets , self , self disclosure , showmanship , truth , writers , writers in academe , writers in academia , writing

- Date
- 2022-01-20T11:29:29Z
- Size
- 4.43 MB
- Lang
- en
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 protagonistsJacob, Martin, Caroline, Jeanie, and Jillthrough 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 choosecarefully or with abandonwith the precision and nuance that has characterized her work over the last thirty years.