Or, Mr Earbrass Writes A Novel
This is a look at the literary life and its attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom. But it is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, desuetude, fever, tides, labels, mourning, elsewards. Finally, 'The Unstrung Harp' is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing 'The Unstrung Harp'.
