Fifteen extraordinary stories from one of the world’s finest practitioners of the short form. Written near the end of Katherine Mansfield’s tragically brief life, these pieces are innovative, startlingly perceptive and alive with colour. Many are set in her native New Zealand; others in England and the French Riviera. All of them give form to the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience — from the blackly comic ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’ and the piercing sketch ‘Miss Brill’, in which a lonely woman’s fragile self-image is brutally shattered, to the vivid impressionistic portrait of family life in ‘At the Bay’. ‘All that I write,’ Mansfield wrote, ‘all that I am — is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.’
ISBN 13: 9780141441801
Author: Lorna Sage
