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Mansfield: A Novel
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‘A vivid and engrossing historical novel’ Daily TelegraphSpanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, Mansfield follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the ‘new kind of fiction’ which she felt the times demanded. She is restless, constantly on the move, in and out of London, to and from France, even into the war zone, to be with her French lover, novelist Francis Carco.For a short time, Mansfield is able to behave as though the war is merely ‘background’, but her ardent relationship with her brother, who arrives from New Zealand to fight in France, makes detachment impossible – as does her love for Jack’s Oxford friend Frederick Goodyear, also a soldier. The war’s shadow remorselessly darkens all their lives, but only increases Mansfield’s determination to break through as a writer.Mansfield is a sharp, subtle and appealing portrait of the person of whose work Virginia Woolf wrote: “It was the only writing I was ever jealous of.”
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| Weight | 0.182 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 256 |
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| Year Published | 2011-6-7 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099565234 |
| About The Author | C. K. Stead was Professor of English at the University of Auckland until 1986. In 1984, he was awarded the CBE for services to New Zealand literature. He has published ten volumes of poetry, two volumes of stories and several works of criticism, and edited the Penguin Modern Classics Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield (1977). Mansfield is his tenth novel. |
Mansfield's world is marvellously evoked -C. K. Stead has researched his subject with the sureness of a scholar but has written with the imaginative confidence of a first-class novelist. He has an uncanny ability to express the thoughts, and the voice of his young heroine. Mansfield is a splendid achievement. |
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| Other text | This is a different kind of writing, a writing that tinkers with the trivia of human lives. And ironically, this is where this book succeeds like a miracle, for trivia, passion, the fear of death are the arterial blood of fiction. |
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