Description: How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfields childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfields old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital, as experienced by the budding writer. Along the way his encounters and dogged research -- into her Beauchamp ancestry, the social landscape, the festering, deadly surroundings -- lead him (and us) to reevaluate long-held conclusions about the writers shaping years. They also lead to a thrilling discovery. This haunting and beautifully vivid book combines fact and fiction, biography and memoir, as Yska rediscovers Mansfields Wellington, unearthing her childhood as he goes, shining a new lamp on old territory.
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Location: Matraville, NSW
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EAN: 9780947522544
UPC: 9780947522544
ISBN: 9780947522544
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Book Title: A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfiel
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Strange Beautiful Excitement : Katherine Mansfield's Wellington
Language: English
Publisher: Otago University Press
Subject: Special Interest / Literary, Women Authors, Literary, Australia & New Zealand, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.6 Oz
Author: Redmer Yska
Item Length: 7.7 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
