num_pages: 68
description: The Unstrung Harp is a look at the literary life and its "attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom." But, as with all of Edward Gorey's books, TUH is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, urns, desuetude, disaffection, claws, loss, trebizond, napkins, shame, stones, distance, fever, antipodes, mush, glaciers, incoherence, labels, miasma, amputation, tides, deceit, mourning, elsewards.Finally, TUH is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing The Unstrung Harp. It's a small masterpiece.
language: English
title: The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel.
titlecomplete: The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel.
genres: 20th Century, Books About Books, Graphic Novels, Gothic, Comics, Picture Books, Fiction, Writing, Humor, Art
ratings_count: 1662
publisher: Harcourt Brace