Description: "One of our greatest and most original living writers sets out the perils of the writing life with joyful provocation in this "anti-memoir." M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, and magical and literary realism. But is there even an M. John Harrison and if so, where do we find him? This is the question the author asks in this memoir-as-mystery, turning for clues to forty years of notetaking: "A note or it never happened. A note or you never looked." Are these notebooks records of failed presence? How do they shine a light on a childhood in the industrial Midlands, a portrait of a young artist in counterculture London, on an adulthood of restless escape into hill and moorland landscapes? And do they tell us anything about the writing of books, each one so different from the last that it might have been written by another version of the author? With aphoristic daring and laconic wit, this anti-memoir will fascinate and delight. It confirms M. John Harrison still further in his status as the most original British writer of his generation."--
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Book Title: Wish I Was Here
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Personal Memoirs, Science Fiction / Space Opera, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Author: M. John Harrison
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
