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Mansfield / C.K. Stead.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Vintage, 2004.Description: 246 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0099468654
  • 9780099468653
  • 1843431769
  • 9781843431763
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 22
LOC classification:
  • PR9639.3.S7 M36 2004b
Other classification:
  • HQ 3890
Online resources: Awards:
  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2005 Fiction Runner-Up.
  • Work published by Vintage, 2004, winner of Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2005: Fiction - Runner up. (1 of 2 runners up.)
Summary: The three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield explored in this novel are in part the story of the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the "new kind of fiction" which she felt the times demanded. She is restless, constantly on the move, in and out of London, to and from France, even into the war zone to be with her French lover, novelist Francis Carco. For a short time, Mansfield is able to behave as though the war is merely "background", but her ardent relationship with her brother, who arrives from New Zealand to fight in France, makes detachment impossible - as does her love for Jack's Oxford friend Frederick Goodyear, also a soldier. The war's shadow remorselessly darkens all their lives, but only increases Mansfield's determination to break through as a writer.
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Fiction - New Zealand Fiction - New Zealand Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Fiction STEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Long Term Storage A00357749

Cover subtitle: A novel.

Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand author.

Novel by a New Zealand author.

Originally published: London : Harvill, 2004.

The three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield explored in this novel are in part the story of the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the "new kind of fiction" which she felt the times demanded. She is restless, constantly on the move, in and out of London, to and from France, even into the war zone to be with her French lover, novelist Francis Carco. For a short time, Mansfield is able to behave as though the war is merely "background", but her ardent relationship with her brother, who arrives from New Zealand to fight in France, makes detachment impossible - as does her love for Jack's Oxford friend Frederick Goodyear, also a soldier. The war's shadow remorselessly darkens all their lives, but only increases Mansfield's determination to break through as a writer.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2005 Fiction Runner-Up.

Work published by Vintage, 2004, winner of Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2005: Fiction - Runner up. (1 of 2 runners up.)

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