{"product_id":"wish-i-was-here-an-anti-memoir-paperback","title":"Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eM. John Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e (London), \u003ci\u003eGranata\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, and a finalist for a World Fantasy Award.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed master of speculative fiction, fantasy, space opera, and literary realism and one of the most celebrated living British authors M. John Harrison has crafted a \"masterpiece\" (Helen MacDonald, author of \u003ci\u003eH Is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e) with this anti-memoir about the joys and perils of the writing life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eM. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author. But is there even an M. John Harrison and if so, where do we find him? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is the question the author asks in this memoir-as-mystery, turning for clues to forty years of notetaking: \"A note or it never happened. A note or you never looked.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Are these notebooks records of failed presence? How do they shine a light on a childhood in the industrial Midlands, a portrait of a young artist in counterculture London, on an adulthood of restless escape into hill and moorland landscapes? And do they tell us anything about the writing of books, each one so different from the last that it might have been written by another version of the author? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With aphoristic daring and laconic prose, this \"infectiously engaging\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, London) anti-memoir will fascinate and delight. It confirms M. John Harrison still further in his status as the most original British writer of his generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eWish I Was Here\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully strange masterwork. It is as if M. John Harrison's prose devises its own autobiography, while the figure of its author stands to one side tinkering at a eulogy for a dead cat, a manifesto against ruin porn, and a manual of operating procedures for creativity as funky as a Brian Eno card deck. How can this also produce a sublime fugue on memory and aging? Read it and see.\" --Jonathan Lethem, author of \u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Fortress of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eM. John Harrison is an English author and literary critic. He has won the J. Tiptree Jr. Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Goldsmiths Prize. He was also a judge for the Booker Prize in 2022. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories, \u003ci\u003eClimbers\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, which consists of \u003ci\u003eLight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNova Swing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEmpty Space\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.31 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52494501151027,"sku":"9781668074626","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RFaMimEsae9781668074626.webp?v=1759985698","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/wish-i-was-here-an-anti-memoir-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}