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Mansfield and Me : A Graphic Memoir

SKU: 9781776560691
$35.00
  • Author:
    LAING Sara
  • ISBN:
    9781776560691
  • Publication Date:
    October 2016
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    336
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Te Herenga Waka University Press
  • Country of Publication:
Mansfield and Me : A Graphic Memoir
Mansfield and Me : A Graphic Memoir

Mansfield and Me : A Graphic Memoir

SKU: 9781776560691
$35.00
  • Author:
    LAING Sara
  • ISBN:
    9781776560691
  • Publication Date:
    October 2016
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    336
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Te Herenga Waka University Press
  • Country of Publication:

Description

Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealandbut she had to leave the country to become one. She wrote, Oh to be a writer, a real writer. And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis. The only writer Virginia Woolf was jealous of, Mansfield hung out with the modernists, lost her brother in World War I, dabbled in Alistair Crowleys druggy occult gatherings and spent her last days in a Fontainebleu commune with Olgivanna, Frank Lloyd Wrights future wife. She was as famous for her letters and diaries as for her short stories.

Sarah Laing wanted to be a real writer, too. A writer as famous as Katherine Mansfield, but not as tortured.

Mansfield and Me charts her journey towards publication and parenthood against Mansfields dramatic story, set in London, Paris, New York and New Zealand.

Part memoir, part biography, part fantasy, it examines how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes.

Sarah Laings gorgeous, playful drawings and self-deprecating humour lightly mask a complex meditation on writing, celebrity and the conscious construction of self. A very New Zealand coming-of-age story: brilliant, funny, thoughtful and smart. Dylan Horrocks, author of Hicksville.

Featured in the Spring 2016 Great Reads newsletter.
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Featured in the 10 October 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
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  • Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealandbut she had to leave the country to become one. She wrote, Oh to be a writer, a real writer. And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis. The only writer Virginia Woolf was jealous of, Mansfield hung out with the modernists, lost her brother in World War I, dabbled in Alistair Crowleys druggy occult gatherings and spent her last days in a Fontainebleu commune with Olgivanna, Frank Lloyd Wrights future wife. She was as famous for her letters and diaries as for her short stories.

    Sarah Laing wanted to be a real writer, too. A writer as famous as Katherine Mansfield, but not as tortured.

    Mansfield and Me charts her journey towards publication and parenthood against Mansfields dramatic story, set in London, Paris, New York and New Zealand.

    Part memoir, part biography, part fantasy, it examines how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes.

    Sarah Laings gorgeous, playful drawings and self-deprecating humour lightly mask a complex meditation on writing, celebrity and the conscious construction of self. A very New Zealand coming-of-age story: brilliant, funny, thoughtful and smart. Dylan Horrocks, author of Hicksville.

    Featured in the Spring 2016 Great Reads newsletter.
    To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

    Featured in the 10 October 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
    To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealandbut she had to leave the country to become one. She wrote, Oh to be a writer, a real writer. And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis. The only writer Virginia Woolf was jealous of, Mansfield hung out with the modernists, lost her brother in World War I, dabbled in Alistair Crowleys druggy occult gatherings and spent her last days in a Fontainebleu commune with Olgivanna, Frank Lloyd Wrights future wife. She was as famous for her letters and diaries as for her short stories.

Sarah Laing wanted to be a real writer, too. A writer as famous as Katherine Mansfield, but not as tortured.

Mansfield and Me charts her journey towards publication and parenthood against Mansfields dramatic story, set in London, Paris, New York and New Zealand.

Part memoir, part biography, part fantasy, it examines how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes.

Sarah Laings gorgeous, playful drawings and self-deprecating humour lightly mask a complex meditation on writing, celebrity and the conscious construction of self. A very New Zealand coming-of-age story: brilliant, funny, thoughtful and smart. Dylan Horrocks, author of Hicksville.

Featured in the Spring 2016 Great Reads newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

Featured in the 10 October 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

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