My Katherine Mansfield Project
My Katherine Mansfield Project
hardback
Published:
20 August, 2015
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Description
When novelist Kirsty Gunn received a Randell Fellowship from the British Academy and Carnegie Foundation in 2009 she returned to New Zealand to spend the winter in Wellington, near the childhood home of Katherine Mansfield, the writer to whom she'd always felt most connected. In this lyrical essay, Gunn explores the ideas of home and belonging - and of her own deep connection to a place where every flower and gatepost seems embroidered with the memory of some story or another.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781910749043 |
| ISBN10 | 1910749044 |
| Number Of Pages | 148 |
| Item Weight | 192 g |
| Product Dimensions | 120 x 190 x 14 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Notting Hill Editions |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
'It amalgamates memory and fiction and research and journal so sensitively and in such an original way that I came away feeling Gunn had escaped all the old hackneyed ways of writing about influence and created something wholly her own... It really lives. All of it.'
-- John Carey'My Katherine Mansfield Project is a book to be treasured by anyone who has left home and moved away... [it] is an enchanting - and at times haunting - essay, as well as a moving tribute to Mansfield. The publisher, Notting Hill Editions, specializes in "reinvigorating the essay as a literary form", and Kirsty Gunn's offering is a triumph of the genre. The book is also a lovely object, stitched with red ribbon, and with a dove-grey cloth cover stamped with striking white-and-red print. Inside, the page numbers are red and chapter titles have red embellishments. It is a tribute to the book as art form; for once, one really can judge a book by its beautifully produced cover.'
-- Gerri Kimber * Times Literary Supplement *'A beautiful and mood-provoking book...the writing went into my consciousness and I felt the loneliness, the sadness, the love and identification with Katherine Mansfield...It was beautiful.'
-- Jane Campion'Kirsty Gunn is a deep thinker; a maverick, an entertainer, and a great writer.'
-- Deborah LevyAuthor's Bio
Kirsty Gunn is the recipient of several awards and prizes including the Scottish Arts Council Bursary for Literature, the New York Times Notable Book award, and the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. She is Professor of Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee.