· Bleaker House Chasing My Novel to the End of the World. Nell Stevens. • 7 Ratings; $; APPLE BOOKS REVIEW. When Nell Stevens was awarded a fellowship to travel anywhere in the world and use her time to write, she could have chosen Paris or Marrakech. Instead, her determination to hunker down and produce a novel sent her to a /5(7). · Her resulting memoir, “Bleaker House,” is a spare chronicle of a young writer coming to terms with isolation and her work’s literary worth in one of the most desolate places on www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. · Cold and isolated, this small archipelago off the southern tip of Argentina is home to many penguins but not much else. There, in a drafty house on Bleaker Island, Stevens begins to write. A blend of memoir and short fiction, Bleaker House chronicles the months Stevens spent alone on the barren island. Every day, she battles hunger pangs — the food she brings in her suitcase must last for the .
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But as Nell gets to work on her novel--a delightful Dickensian fiction she calls Bleaker House--she discovers that an excruciatingly erratic Internet connection and calories a day (as much food as she could carry in her suitcase, budgeted to the raisin) are far from ideal conditions for literary production. With deft humour, this memoir traces Nell's island days and slowly reveals details of the life and people she has left behind in pursuit of her art. Cold and isolated, this small archipelago off the southern tip of Argentina is home to many penguins but not much else. There, in a drafty house on Bleaker Island, Stevens begins to write. A blend of memoir and short fiction, Bleaker House chronicles the months Stevens spent alone on the barren island. Every day, she battles hunger pangs — the food she brings in her suitcase must last for the duration of her stay — and the creeping terror of not finishing her novel in time to catch the. Hunger, Boredom And Disappointment Are A Literary Feast In 'Bleaker House'. Ma AM ET. Heller McAlpin. Bleaker House. Chasing My Novel to the End of the World. by Nell Stevens.
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