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Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her ideas behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: "Pictures of great treasures in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for the ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
$15.99 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Scented Gardens for the Blind and the Adaptable Man by Janet Frame
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Hailed by one reviewer as 'likely a work of genius', Scented Gardens For The Blind (first published in 1963) ostensibly follows the members of the fractured Glace family, suffering from different forms of sensory deprivation - the daughter mute, the mother blind, the father estranged - yet each living i ...Show more
The Goose Bath by Janet Frame
$29.99 NZD
Category: World poetry | Series: The Janet Frame Collection | Reading Level: very good
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was ...Show more
The Goose Bath Poems by Janet Frame
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was ...Show more
The Lagoon & Other Stories/ The Pocket Mirror by Janet Frame
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
These stories, when first published, won the Hubert Church Award, saving Janet Frame from an impending lobotomy. Now, for the first time, they appear in the same book as her only published collection of poems. This is a beautifully produced volume that offers an ideal introduction to her work; a must-ha ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'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