Acrimony
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
Acrimony
By (Author) Michael Hofmann
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
80
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 8mm
110g
Description
Acrimony touches on personal and political watersheds and examines various kinds of patrimony. It is characterized by a drastic honesty, and rhythmic force.Michael Hofmann's first book, Nights in the Iron Hotel, established him as a force to be reckoned with.
Author Bio
Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001).
