Janet Frame - Böcker

Ansikten i vattnet är Janet Frames mäktiga och gripande dokumentation i romanform av sin mångåriga erfarenhet som intagen på nyzeeländskt mentalsjukhus under 1940- och 50-talen. Återkommande hot om lobotomi, tortyr med elchocker och ständiga föröd...

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En av 1900-talets stora självbiografiska romaner »Lysande och oförglömlig.« Betyg: 5 av 5 - Inger Littberger Caisou-Rousseau, BTJ En ängel vid mitt bord¿ är den bok som har kommit att definiera Janet Frames författarskap. Den ingick i en självbiog...

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Toby Withers är epileptiker, därför säger folk i hans nyzeeländska hemstad att han inte kan klara sig i världen. Fast besluten att motbevisa dem beger han sig till London för att skriva sin berättelse om Den försvunna stammen. På båten möter han t...

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Fyra syskon, Teresa, Toby, Francie och Daphne, letar skatter vid soptippen. Det är deras älsklingslekplats, fram till den dag då elden berövar Francie hennes unga liv. Och lämnar de andra åt sina darrande minnen. Barnen i den fattiga familjen With...

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Vera är modern som väljer att leva som blind. Erlene, hennes dotter, vägrar sedan länge att tala. Edward, fadern, har tagit sin tillflykt i ett avlägset land. Bortom dessa karaktärer arbetar ett medvetande som för länge sedan sprängt alla broar ti...

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'Owls Do Cry remains innovative and relevant' GUARDIAN 'Janet Frame was a unique and troubled soul whose luminous words are the more precious' HILARY MANTEL 'Her dark, eloquent song captured my heart ' JANE CAMPION Owls Do Cry is the story of the ...

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'All I had experienced, all the stories I had read or dreamed came to me the moment I, a stranger, turned the key in the lock of the unknown house.' In a sweltering basement in downtown Baltimore, Mavis Halleton, writer, ventriloquist and gossip, ...

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NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM ON NETFLIX 'One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century' MICHAEL HOLROYD, SUNDAY TIMES 'Irresistibly readable, commendably honest' FLEUR ADCOCK, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'The Janet Frame of An Angel...

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'Owls Do Cry remains innovative and relevant' GUARDIAN 'Janet Frame was a unique and troubled soul whose luminous words are the more precious' HILARY MANTEL'Her dark, eloquent song captured my heart ' JANE CAMPIONOwls Do Cry is the story of the Wi...

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'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that i...

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'All I had experienced, all the stories I had read or dreamed came to me the moment I, a stranger, turned the key in the lock of the unknown house.'In a sweltering basement in downtown Baltimore, Mavis Halleton, writer, ventriloquist and gossip, i...

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'Frame achieved that supremely difficult task of finding a voice so natural' JANE CAMPION, GUARDIAN'The idea of a new novel by Janet Frame is in itself a delight' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her' ELEANOR CATTON...

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'A deeply rewarding and beautiful novel' HILARY MANTEL, GUARDIAN ' Towards Another Summer is a joy to read' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'Frame has been compared with Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf' TELEGRAPHLife in England seems transitory for Grace C...

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'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature' ANITA BROOKNER'Lyrical, touching and deeply entertaining' JOHN MORTIMER, OBSERVER'Any one of her books could be published today and it would be ground-breaking' ELEANOR CAT...

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'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that i...

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This collection of stories - Janet Frame's first published book - appeared in New Zealand in 1951, while she was confined in a mental hospital. It won the Hubert Church Award, and a threatened brain operation was averted. These stories bring into ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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From the author of "An Angel at My Table" comes an exquisitely written story of exile and return, homesickness, and belonging. Written in 1963, this is the first publication of a novel Frame considered too personal to be published while ...

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Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowshipa living memorial to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell on...

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