| Description |
289 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
New Items
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| Contents |
The lagoon -- Keel and Kool -- My cousins who could eat cooked turnips -- Dossy -- Swans -- The day of the sheep -- Child -- Spirit -- My father's best suit -- Miss Gibson and the lumber-room -- A note on the Russian war -- The birds began to sing -- The pictures -- My last story -- A windy day -- The terrible screaming -- The mythmaker's office -- The pleasures of arithmetic -- The daylight and the dust -- Solutions -- One must give up -- Two sheep -- The reservoir -- Prizes -- A sense of proportion -- The bull calf -- The teacup -- The advocate -- The chosen image -- The linesman -- How can I get in touch with Persia? -- A relative of the famous -- The triumph of poetry -- The bath -- Winter garden -- You are now entering the human heart -- Insulation -- Lolly-legs (1954) -- Face downwards in the grass (1957) -- A boy's will (1966) -- They never looked back (1974) -- Two widowers (1979) |
| Summary |
The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, taken from the four different collections released during her lifetime and featuring many of her best stories. Written over four decades, her themes range from childhood to old age to death and beyond. This volume offers the perfect sample of the many styles of Janet Frame's unique and powerful writing |
| Notes |
Previously published: New Zealand: Random House, 2009 as Prizes: selected short stories |
| Subject |
Short stories, New Zealand.
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| SUBJECT |
London (England) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106611
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Author |
Frame, Janet.
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| ISBN |
9781741666076 (paperback) |
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