Imagined Corners by Willa Muir
Introduced by J.B. Pick. Willa Muir was an acute and acerbic observer with an intimate knowledge of the Scottish middle-class conventions she describes. In Imagined Corners, her first novel, young Elizabeth Shand, newly married to the unstable but handsome Hector, finds herself in the social, intellectual and spiritual strait-jacket of small-town life early in the 20th century. Into the growing complexity of these entangled relationships her sister-in-law and namesake returns from Italy, sophisticated and freshly widowed. Through her, Elizabeth rediscovers an intuitive desire to face life honestly and intelligently, and reassesses an enforced life of petty vanities and delusion against new possibilities of personal and sexual freedom.
Willa Muir (1890-1970) was born and brought up in Montrose. After her marriage to Edwin Muir she collaborated with him on many translations and after his death wrote a moving memoir of their life together called Belonging. Aside from her two novels, Mrs Ritchie and Imagined Corners, she also wrote a substantial amount of fiction and criticism throughout her life.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780862411404 |
| ISBN 10 | 0862411408 |
| Title | Imagined Corners |
| Author | Willa Muir |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2010-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 293 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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