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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Towards Another Summer about Zealand, Grace, U.S.,about with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction? Start with the sentence 'New Zealand writer the author (19242004) will stand as one of the most sensitive, forthright, and adventurous illuminators of human consciousness'.
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conversations.value: New Zealand writer the author (19242004) will stand as one of the most sensitive, forthright, and adventurous illuminators of human consciousness. The author of many celebrated novels, stories, and a three-volume autobiography, the author survived a turbulent and tragic childhood, mental illness, and nearly disastrous medical treatment to reap numerous awards. The cost of literary success is the subject of this 1963 novel, appearing for the first time in the U.S.,about a writer, Grace Cleave, who has left sunny, lush New Zealand for sooty, crushing London. Grace accepts aninvitation to spend a weekend with a kind journalist andhis family in the country, then fails miserably to overcome her debilitating self-consciousness. Equally flummoxed by the snowy landscape and the warmth of Philips household, she turns incoherent and retreats into all-consuming memories of her childhood. Sorevealing is this moody, metaphysical, andrhapsodicnovel, the author set it aside. Wisely rescued and posthumously published, this exquisite portrait of a mind under pressurewill revitalize appreciation fora poetic master stylist, sharp wit, deep thinker, and consummate artist. --Donna Seaman