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An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion. Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections. Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor ...Show more
In the Memorial Room by Janet Frame
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship-a 'living memorial' to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room i ...Show more
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Through the eyes of a woman of myriad personalities - ventriloquist, gossip and writer - Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction: the avoidances, interruptions and irrelevancies, as well as a teasing blurring between fact and fiction. The landscape of the Maniototo becomes 'the blo ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories By Janet Frame by Janet Frame
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Written over four decades and including all of her best stories, this new selection illustrates Janet Frame's dazzling versatility. Her themes range from childhood, to old age, death and beyond. Some stories are firmly rooted in realism and others in glorious fantasy. In Frame's stories life is mysterio ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Sometimes, Grace thought, 'no thank you' was the most chilling phrase in the English language.' Janet Frame wrote this small and exquisite novel in 1963 whilst taking a break from her longest novel, THE ADAPTABLE MAN. It's a highly personal work that she did not want published until after her death. TO ...Show more
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