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Talk Of Treasure
Paperback Edition: 1
Jane Carswell began her working life at Pegasus Press shortly after its audacious publication of Janet Frames novel Owls Do Cry, and years later she went on to publish a book herself, an award-winning memoir about teaching in China called Under the Huang Jiao Tree.
The road between one book and the other was a rocky one paved with self-doubt and publishers rejections, the experience provoking Jane to write again, this time about the troubled transformation between the private interior world of reading and the noisy exterior world of publication, between the books we read and treasure and the ones we write, which can so often feel like tarnished goods.
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She tried to manage this struggle by dividing her time between a busy life as a music teacher in Christchurch while looking after a succession of young Chinese guests, and a quiet withdrawal to a world of meditation and monasteries. But publication continued to elude her, so Jane journeyed to the place where Janet Frame grew up to find the courage she needed to revise her manuscript one last time. Lyrical and literary, Talk of Treasure is a compelling memoir about how to be a writer, and more simply, just how to be.
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Pages : 258
Publisher : Makaro Press
Publication date : 2016-10-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure