A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield's Wellington 1888 - 1903 - Couverture rigide

Yska, Redmer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0947522549 ISBN 13 : 9780947522544

Editeur : Otago University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 Mansfield s childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield s 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 writer s 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 Mansfield s Wellington, unearthing her childhood as he goes, shining a new lamp on old territory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Redmer Yska is a Wellington-born writer and historian. He has published books about postwar teenagers ('bodgies and widgies'), Dutch New Zealanders like himself, and a commissioned history of Wellington City. He was awarded the National Library Research Fellowship to write a history of NZ Truth, published in 2010. Yska was the major recipient of a New Zealand History Research Trust Fund Award in 2014, allowing him to write this book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Otago University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0947522549
• ISBN 13: 9780947522544
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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