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History: The Home Movie

3.2/5 ( ratings)

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" 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 capacity to fictionally propose a world as complex and mysterious as reality itself. A challenging, innovative, and unsettling novel in verse."--Los Angeles Times

"A sly, surprising, brilliant, and yes, readable book."--Boston Phoenix

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Anchor

Release: January 01, 1996

ISBN: 0385476604

ISBN 13: 9780385476607

History: The Home Movie

3.2/5 ( ratings)

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" 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 capacity to fictionally propose a world as complex and mysterious as reality itself. A challenging, innovative, and unsettling novel in verse."--Los Angeles Times

"A sly, surprising, brilliant, and yes, readable book."--Boston Phoenix

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Anchor

Release: January 01, 1996

ISBN: 0385476604

ISBN 13: 9780385476607

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