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Title: |
Strange Beautiful Excitement |
| Sub-title: |
Katherine Mansfields Wellington 1888-1903 |
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| By (author): |
Redmer Yska |
| ISBN10-13: |
0947522549 : 9780947522544 |
| Illustrations: |
colour illus |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
200x150mm |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Weight: |
.548 Kg. |
| Published: |
Otago University Press - August 2017 |
| List Price: |
22.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Biography: literary : Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose write : New Zealand |
| 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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"It’s not enough to say I immensely enjoyed A Strange Beautiful Excitement ... it’s simply splendid." -- Dame Fiona Kidman
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"... the best account I have ever read of Wellington and Karori as they were in Mansfield’s day ... Vivid and vigorous, it is a pleasure to read." -- Kathleen Jones, KM biographer
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