Author

Publication

2006 - Vintage, Auckland, N.Z, New Zealand

Language

English

Word Count

65,500 words, Guess

Page Count

262 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDCNZ823.2

Description

"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 bloody plain' of the imagination, as the narrator tells us about her marriages and children, her friends (real and imagined), her travels (between New Zealand and the United States) and her stay in the house left in her care by friends travelling in Italy. She must face the reality of death as well as probe the authenticity of the modern world."-- Publisher description.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Janet Frame collection

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