{"product_id":"at-the-bay-isbn-9781612195834","title":"At the Bay","description":"A brilliant modernist classic--now available for the first time in a stand-alone edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis dreamy, formally audacious story of a summer's day in the life of one family is a small masterpiece by Katherine Mansfield, hailed as \"one of the great modernist writers. Virginia Woolf said of Mansfield, hers was \"the only writing I have ever been jealous of.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA modernist master of cool precision and extraordinary delicacy, Mansfield wrote about family life with a sharp radicalism, and \u003ci\u003eAt the Bay\u003c\/i\u003e is one of her greatest works. Told in thirteen parts, beginning early in the morning and ending at dusk, \u003ci\u003eAt the Bay\u003c\/i\u003e captures both the Burnell family's intricate web of relatives and friends, and the dreamy, unassuming natural beauty of Crescent Bay. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaunting but ever understated, \u003ci\u003eAt the Bay\u003c\/i\u003e is as timeless novella, and a testament to Mansfield's remarkable powers.\"The only writing I have ever been jealous of.\" --Virginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By the time of her death in 1923, at age 34, she was being acclaimed as one of the few truly outstanding short-story writers in English, and with minor fluctuations her reputation has held firm ever since.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A courageous, reckless character--by turns precociously sensual, cynical, and childish . . . There are stories of hers that last, because they have her sting, delicacy, and wit.\" --V.S. Pritchett, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Mansfield has brought] her inventions right over the threshold of art. They are extraordinarily solid; they have lived so long in her mind that she knows all about them and can ransack them for the difficult, rare, essential points.\" --Rebecca West\u003cb\u003eKatherine Mansfield \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1888. She moved to London in 1903, to attend college, and settled there in 1908. In 1910, she began to contribute articles to\u003ci\u003e The New Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and the following year, she published her first collection,\u003ci\u003e In a German Pension\u003c\/i\u003e. Mansfield was close to a number of her fellow modernists, including D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Her second book of stories,\u003ci\u003e Bliss\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1921, and her third, \u003ci\u003eThe Garden Party\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared a year later. It was the last book to be published in her lifetime: after contracting tuberculosis in 1917, she died six years later, in 1923.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301046014181,"sku":"NP9781612195834","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781612195834.jpg?v=1767721901","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/at-the-bay-isbn-9781612195834","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}