History The Home Movie

Name: History The Home Movie
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ISBN: 9780385476607

ISBN-10: 0385476604

ISBN-13: 9780385476607

Edition: N/A

Authors: Craig Raine

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A thoughtful and masterful novel in verse by an innovative 20th-century poet. One of England's foremost poets, Craig Raine offers a "bold, ambitious chronicle of life" (New York Times Review) told through the stories of two families, the Pasternaks and the Raines, who touch each other and are touched by history in different ways. Like a home movie, this novel in verse masterfully conjures the world in which these families move by re-creating the texture of ordinary and extraordinary life. Blending fact, fiction, and thrilling leaps of imagination, History: The Home Movie promises to be the film you'll ever read. "Craig Raine's History admirably reclaims poetry's narrative function, its…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Craig Raineis a poet, lecturer, and critic. He is a fellow of New College, Oxford, the author of several poetry collections and books, and the editor of the journalAreté. He lives in Oxford, England.