BIBFRAME Work

Title

Wish I was here

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  • Text
  • Monograph

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Classification

  • BIO026000
  • FIC028030
  • DDC: 823/.914, B (Assigner: dlc)
  • LCC: PR6058.A6942 Z46 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

Summary

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Harrison, M. John (Michael John), 1945-. Wish I was here

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:16:29.462138+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23703339

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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