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    The Breaking Hour
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    The Breaking Hour

    By Kevin Crossley-Holland

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEnitharmon Press
    Release dateJul 1, 2015
    ISBN9781910392768
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    The Breaking Hour
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    Kevin Crossley-Holland

    Kevin Crossley-Holland is a Carnegie Medal-winning author and a well-known poet. He is the author of the Arthur trilogy, including The Seeing Stone, which won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, as well as Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki. He currently resides on the north Norfolk coast in England.

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