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Imagined corners

Willa Muir ; introduced by J.B. Pick

(Canongate classics, 1)

Canongate Pub., 1987, c1935

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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.

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  • NCID
    BA21154866
  • ISBN
    • 0862411408
  • LCCN
    88206299
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Edinburgh
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 281 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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