Owls Do Cry
First published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers family, tracing Daphne's coming of age into a post-war New Zealand too narrow to know what to make of her. She is deemed mad, institutionalized, and made to undergo a risky lobotomy. Margaret Drabble calls Owls Do Cry a song of survival”-it is Daphne's song of survival but also the author's: Frame was herself misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and schedule…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61902-840-1
- EAN: 9781619028401
- Produktnummer: 19846653
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 211 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.0 cm 267 g
- Gewicht: 267
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Janet Frame (1924-2004) was one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers. She is best known for An Angel at My Table, which the Sunday Times of London called one of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century,” and inspired Jane Campion's internationally acclaimed film. Throughout her long career, Frame received a wide range of awards, including every literary prize for which she was eligible in New Zealand, honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Literature.
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