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Mansfield and me : a graphic memoir / Sarah Laing.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.4.L356 Z46 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laing, Sarah, 1973- author, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laing, Sarah, 1973---Comic books, strips, etc.
- Laing, Sarah.
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Influence--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Mansfield, Katherine.
- Laing, Sarah, 1973-.
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Authorship.
- Authors, New Zealand--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Authors, New Zealand.
- Authorship--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Genre:
- Autobiographical comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Wellington : VUP, Victoria University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Part memoir, part biography, Laing charts her life and journey to being a writer against Katherine Mansfield's own journey. An examination of how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes.
- Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealand-but she had to leave the country to become one. She wrote, 'Oh to be a writer, a real writer.' And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis. The only writer Virginia Woolf was jealous of, Mansfield hung out with the modernists, lost her brother in World War I, dabbled in Alistair Crowley's druggy occult gatherings and spent her last days in a Fontainebleu commune with Olgivanna, Frank Lloyd Wright's future wife. She was as famous for her letters and diaries as for her short stories. Sarah Laing wanted to be a real writer, too. A writer as famous as Katherine Mansfield, but not as tortured. Mansfield and Me charts her journey towards publication and parenthood against Mansfield's dramatic story, set in London, Paris, New York and New Zealand. Part memoir, part biography, part fantasy, it examines how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes.
- Contents:
- At the Bay 1
- Her First Ball 23
- The Garden Party 39
- Prelude 59
- The Wrong House 75
- New Friends 97
- I Remember Everything 123
- Indiscreet Journeys 148
- Flies in the Milk Jug 171
- Bombardment 201
- If I Were to Make it Here 237
- Lovely, Unforgettable Earth 269
- I Seen the Little Lamp 319.
- ISBN:
- 9781776560691
- 1776560698
- OCLC:
- 959890452
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