The Breaking Hour by Kevin Crossley-Holland
This is a book of meetings: a mother meets her baby; a man steps into his childhood; an old man encounters Godfather Death; and in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. Invoking Orpheus and Atargatis, Pierre de Ronsard and Beethoven, and moving from Hades to a hellish warzone, the high Alps and his own beloved north Norfolk, many of Kevin Crossley-Holland s beautifully wrought, often moving poems inhabit the crossing places between actuality, memory, and imagination. They engage with the beauty of language and its limitations, and with grievous loss propitiated by affirmation and love.
'Crossley-Holland uncovers not only words but an entire landscape which haunts and is rich in echoes' - HELEN DUNMORE, THE OBSERVER
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a poet, historical novelist for children, and authority on traditional tale who has presented many BBC radio programs and is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries. He is the President of the School Library Association, an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a
patron of the Society of Storytelling, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His Arthur trilogy was translated into 25 languages, and has sold well over one million copies worldwide.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910392096 |
| ISBN 10 | 191039209X |
| Title | The Breaking Hour |
| Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Enitharmon Press |
| Year published | 2015-06-12 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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