Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel To The End Of The World
by Nell Stevens /
2017 / English / EPUB
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A girl, a laptop, and a waddle of penguins. In this witty and
genre-defying memoir, a young writer can travel anywhere she wants
to finally finish her novel—and ends up on a frozen island at the
bottom of the world.
A girl, a laptop, and a waddle of penguins. In this witty and
genre-defying memoir, a young writer can travel anywhere she wants
to finally finish her novel—and ends up on a frozen island at the
bottom of the world.
Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel,
but life kept getting in the way. Then came a game-changing
opportunity: she won a fellowship that would let her live, all
expenses paid, anywhere in the world to research and write a book.
Would she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic village, an
exotic paradise? Not exactly. Nell picked Bleaker Island, a snowy,
windswept pile of rock in the Falklands. There, in a guesthouse
where she would be the only guest, she could finally rid herself of
distractions and write. Before the spring thaw, surely she’d have a
novel.
Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel,
but life kept getting in the way. Then came a game-changing
opportunity: she won a fellowship that would let her live, all
expenses paid, anywhere in the world to research and write a book.
Would she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic village, an
exotic paradise? Not exactly. Nell picked Bleaker Island, a snowy,
windswept pile of rock in the Falklands. There, in a guesthouse
where she would be the only guest, she could finally rid herself of
distractions and write. Before the spring thaw, surely she’d have a
novel.
And indeed, other than sheep, penguins,
paranoia, and the weather, there aren’t many distractions on
Bleaker. Nell gets to work on a charming Dickensian fiction she
calls
And indeed, other than sheep, penguins,
paranoia, and the weather, there aren’t many distractions on
Bleaker. Nell gets to work on a charming Dickensian fiction she
callsBleaker House
Bleaker House—only to discover that total isolation
and 1,085 calories a day are far from ideal conditions for literary
production. With deft humor, the memoir traces Nell’s island days
and slowly reveals details of the life and people she has left
behind in pursuit of her writing. They pop up in her novel, too,
and in other fictional pieces that dot the book. It seems that
there is nowhere Nell can run—an island or the pages of her
notebook—to escape the big questions of love, art and
ambition.
—only to discover that total isolation
and 1,085 calories a day are far from ideal conditions for literary
production. With deft humor, the memoir traces Nell’s island days
and slowly reveals details of the life and people she has left
behind in pursuit of her writing. They pop up in her novel, too,
and in other fictional pieces that dot the book. It seems that
there is nowhere Nell can run—an island or the pages of her
notebook—to escape the big questions of love, art and
ambition.
Terrifically smart, full of wry writing advice,
and with a clever puzzle of a structure,
Terrifically smart, full of wry writing advice,
and with a clever puzzle of a structure,Bleaker House
Bleaker House marks
the arrival of a fresh new voice in creative nonfiction.
marks
the arrival of a fresh new voice in creative nonfiction.