Claire Harman - All Sorts of Lives Katherine Mansfield and the art o

Pages Count - 352. Binding type - Perfect.
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The item is a book Paperback
The Author Name is Claire Harman
The Title is All Sorts of Lives : Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything

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Pages Count - 352. Binding type - Perfect.
Category - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
LITERARY CRITICISM / Short Stories


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** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine MansfieldaEURs career was short but dazzling. She was the only writer Virginia Woolf admitted being jealous of, yet by the 1950s was so undervalued that Elizabeth Bowen was moved to ask, 'Where is she aEUR" our missing contemporary?'In this inventive and intimate study, Claire Harman takes a fresh look at MansfieldaEURs life and achievements, through the form she did so much to revolutionise: the short story. Exploring ten pivotal works, we watch how MansfieldaEURs desire to grow as a writer pushed her art into unknown territory, and how illness sharpened her extraordinary vitality: aEUR~Would you not like to try all sorts of lives aEUR" one is so very small.aEURaEUR~What a gift to the biographer, this life of adventure and sickness and sex and celebrityaEUR| BrilliantaEUR Sunday TimesaEUR~A searching, incisive and compulsive book. A lesson in how to read and connect and understandaEUR Sunjeev Sahota

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