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Edward Hall's artistic directorship has restored Hampstead as a beacon of new writing: the year began with Nina Raine's unflinching, swirlingly staged hospital drama Tiger Country, and ended with Richard Eyre's fine production of Nicholas Wright's sharp-edged The Last of the Duchess.
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Ms. Raine's direction has the cast elegantly moving the furniture and props in Lizzie Clachan's clever set, which transmutes with smooth rapidity from a suburban London house to a beach in Norfolk.
Smart and Snappy, 'Jumpy' Crackles Paul Levy 2011
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Ms. Raine's research shows in the undidactic way she makes the audience understand the arguments: Is "signing" a language itself, not simply an inadequate version of English, though it is unable to express conditionals (such as "if" and "would")?
Raine's Tribal Instinct Breaks Down the Language Barriers Paul Levy 2010
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Craig Raine's first poetry collection in over 10 years is packed with his love of detail and acerbic precision.
Poetry in brief 2011
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For more than a decade, reviewers have been wearied by Raine's schoolboyish anal-fixation, which continues unimpeded, supplying a rush of anaphrodisiac prose.
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You need to admit to Franklin Raine's 70,000,000.00 Golden parachute from Fannie/Freddie ...
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The publisher's blurb for Heartbreak ( "Craig Raine's first novel") suggests that Raine has chosen his side.
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But Eagleton is right: the selfsame images and tone that work so resonantly and powerfully and hauntingly in Raine's verse fall flat in this novel.
Craig Raine, Heartbreak (2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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Like Raine's criticism, the novel leaps between periods and countries, from a jilted English spinster to a successful American poet; from the affair of an English teacher with his artful pupil to the interwoven infidelities of Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner.
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Compression of metaphor, the gift for seeing unexpected things in other things, is Raine's strong suit.
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