Settling the World by M John Harrison

Settling the World by M John Harrison

Twenty excerpts from Mansfield's correspondence address the craft of writing and her own views on her work, subjects rarely broached in her many letters Criticism includes eighteen essays that collectively suggest the changing emphases in how Mansfield has been read by critics. Contributors include fellow writers Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot, Katherine Anne Porter, V. S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, and Frank O' Connor, as well as biographers Claire Tomalin and Vincent O'Sullivan, among others A Selected Bibliography is also included.

'All [stories] are elegant and inventive.. Harrison writes memorably about people who are bewildered, sidetracked, trapped or on the lookout for opportunities to change.' - The Spectator; 'Harrison excels at evoking the deadened absurdity of the everyday.' - The TLS; 'Settled... certainly doesn't mean being tucked up. Rather, again and again these works are about the settling of scores.' - The Scotsman; 'The evolution of Harrison's prose can be traced across the stories, the steely, mannered prose typical of the British New Wave giving way to the warmer, more supple sentences that mark his late style.' - The Quietus; 'Settling the World is a brilliant labyrinth of tales by one of modern fiction's most distinctive voices.' - Locus Magazine

M. John Harrison is the author of eleven novels (including In Viriconium, The Course of the Heart and Light), as well as four previous short story collections, two graphic novels, and collaborations with Jane Johnson, writing as Gabriel King. He won the Boardman Tasker Award for Climbers (1989), the James Tiptree Jr Award for Light (2002) and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Nova Swing (2007). He reviews fiction for The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement, and lives in Shropshire.

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ISBN 13	9781912697281
ISBN 10	1912697289
Title	Settling the World
Author	M John Harrison
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Comma Press
Year published	2020-08-20
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Short-listed for Shirley Jackson Award 2020
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