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Mansfield

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to break through as a writer. As her brother and lovers are drawn into the conflict, Mansfield becomes more and more determined to write the ‘new kind of fiction’ which she feels the times demand.

While sticking scrupulously to what is known about Mansfield’s life and her friends (a cast that includes D.H and Frieda Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Virginia Woolf), this extraordinary novel takes the reader beyond biography into the mind and emotions of its subject. It 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.’

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR C.K.
Stead

C.K. Stead is the renowned author of poetry, literary criticism, short stories, and of novels such as Mansfield and My Name Was Judas. He was awarded the C.B.E. for services to New Zealand literature and was the winner of the 2010 Sunday Times Short Story Award.

C.K. Stead is the renowned author of poetry, literary criticism, short stories, and of novels such as Mansfield and My Name Was Judas. He was awarded the C.B.E. for services to New Zealand literature and was the winner of the 2010 Sunday Times Short Story Award.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
New Zealand
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Vintage RHNZ

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