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050 4 $aPR6063.A384$bZ638 2011
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100 1 $aPatten, Eve.
245 10 $aImperial refugee :$bOlivia Manning's fictions of war /$cEve Patten.
260 $aCork :$bCork University Press,$c2011.
300 $a234 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA life in writing -- The Balkan trilogy: Romania and the far end of Europe -- From Athens to Alexandria: the contexts of personal landscape -- Egypt, the desert war and the Levant trilogy -- 'John Bull's other Ireland': Manning's Palestine fiction -- The rain forest.
520 3 $aOlivia Manning's reputation as a difficult personality often threatens to obscure her reputation as a writer. Few twentieth century novelists can have inspired such consistent dislike. The publisher Dan Davin, for example, who was devoted to Manning's gregarious husband Reggie Smith, complained of her as a shrewish woman whose aim was to be as unpleasant to as many people as possible, while the legendary denizen of Fitzrovia, Julian Maclaren-Ross, recalled among his Stag's Head drinking circle the taciturn, undemonstrative and physically unattractive Olivia Manning who, from the vantage point of her bar-stool regarded the others with an expression of amusement, mingled with contempt. Fellow writer Inez Holden christened her "whiney" Manning; Anthony Powell, her otherwise generous editor at Punch, admitted her to be the world's worst grumbler and her publishers at Heinemann were forced to conclude that she was never an easy artist to handle. Even Kay Dick, her lifelong friend and correspondent, depicted Manning in her 1984 novel The Shelf as the spiteful gossip Sophie, who, with her wry fragility, delicate hands and penetrating voice . . . often reminded me of a goshawk about to bite.
600 10 $aManning, Olivia$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xLiterature and the war.
730 0 $aProject Muse UPCC books$5net
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