History: The Home Movie

By Craig Raine

Book Overview

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 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385476604
• ISBN13: 9780385476607
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"