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020			_a9781908634214
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050		4	_aPR6063.A384 _bZ638 2011
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100	1		_aPatten, Eve.
245	1	0	_aImperial refugee _h[electronic resource] : _bOlivia Manning's fictions of war / _cEve Patten.
260			_aCork, Ireland : _bCork University Press, _c2011 _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject Muse, _g2012) _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 electronic text (vii, 234 p.) :) _bdigital file.
500			_aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAcknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter one. A life in writing -- Chapter two. The Balkan trilogy: Romania and the far end of Europe -- Chapter three. From Athens to Alexandria: the contexts of personal landscape -- Chapter four. Egypt, the Desert war and the Levant trilogy -- Chapter five. 'John Bull's other Ireland': Manning's Palestine fiction -- Conclusion. The Rain forest -- Notes and references -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	0	_aManning, Olivia _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xLiterature and the war.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z1859184820 _z9781859184820
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781908634214/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c36008 _d36008