02451cam a2200277 4500 1494779710 TxAuBib 20240808120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593825273 0593825276 24171c4a-424c-4eb8-ba33-df87a352b442 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9951463 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Michaels, Anne. Held [Libby Audiobook] : A novel. Books on Tape, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 123MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 123MB. HTML:LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate 1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts with messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations of connections and consequences that ignite and reignite as the century unfolds. In radiant moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. Held is affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom, and compassion, a novel by a writer at the height of her powers. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-08-07 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=24171c4a-424c-4eb8-ba33-df87a352b442&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=24171c4a-424c-4eb8-ba33-df87a352b442&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)