Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

When she was twenty-seven, Nell Stevensùa lifelong aspiring novelistùwon an all-expenses-paid fellowship to go anywhere in the world to write. 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. Other than sheep, penguins, paranoia, and the weather, there arenÆt many distractions, but as Nell soon discovers, total isolation and 1,085 calories a day are far from ideal conditions for literary production. With deft humor, this memoir traces her island days and slowly reveals the life and people she has left behind in pursuit of her writing. It seems that there is nowhere she can runùan island or the pages of her notebookùto escape the big questions of love, art, and, ambition.

• | Author: Nell Stevens
• | Publisher: Anchor
• | Publication Date: Feb 06, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1101972866
• | ISBN-13: 9781101972861