Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1776560698 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sarah Laing was born in Champaign-Urbana in 1973 to New Zealand parents, and grew up in Palmerston North. She was awarded fellowships at the Michael King Writers Centre, the Sargeson Centre and the University of Auckland. The winner of the 2006 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition, she went on to publish a collection of stories and two novels, most recently The Fall of Light. Also a graphic designer and illustrator, she’s contribut
She was awarded fellowships at the Michael King Writers Centre, the Sargeson Centre and the University of Auckland. About the AuthorSarah Laing was born in Champaign-Urbana in 1973 to New Zealand parents, and grew up in Palmerston North. Also a graphic designer and illustrator, she’s contributed comics to magazines, illustrated children’s books, and co-edited Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women’s Comics. The winner of the 2006 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition, she went on to publish a collection of stories and two novels, most recently The Fall of Light. She lives in Wellington with her family.
Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealand—but she had to leave the country to become one. A writer as famous as Katherine Mansfield, but not as tortured. She was as famous for her letters and diaries as for her short stories. Mansfield and Me charts her journey towards publication and parenthood against Mansfield’s dramatic story, set in London, Paris, New York and New Zealand. 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. Part memoir, part biography, part fantasy, it examines how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes.. Sarah Laing wanted to be a real writer, too. She wrote, ‘Oh to be a writer, a real writer.’ And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis