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Living in the Maniototo
Janet Frame
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Description for Living in the Maniototo
Paperback. In this highly inventive novel, reality, fiction and dreams are woven together as Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction. Editor(s): Grant, Linda. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
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, is struggling to write her novel when an unexpected invitation arrives. The Garretts, a couple Mavis has never heard of but who admire her work, are to spend time in Italy, and offer the use of their airy home in the Berkeley hills. During her stay, an earthquake hits northern Italy, ... Read more
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, is struggling to write her novel when an unexpected invitation arrives. The Garretts, a couple Mavis has never heard of but who admire her work, are to spend time in Italy, and offer the use of their airy home in the Berkeley hills. During her stay, an earthquake hits northern Italy, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
VMC
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844084609
SKU
V9781844084609
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About Janet Frame
Janet Frame (1924-2004) is New Zealand's most famous writer. She was a novelist, poet, essayist and short-story writer. Her autobiography inspired Jane Campion's acclaimed film, 'An Angel at My Table'. She was an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Literature and won the Commonwealth Literature Prize. In 1983 she was awarded the CBE.
Reviews for Living in the Maniototo
A clever, high-spirited performance
NEW YORKER
Puts everything else that has come my way this year in the shade
GUARDIAN
Probably as near a masterpiece as we are likely to see this year . . . it is a novel full of riches
Martyn Goff
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Quirky, rich, eccentric
Margaret Atwood ... Read more
NEW YORKER
Puts everything else that has come my way this year in the shade
GUARDIAN
Probably as near a masterpiece as we are likely to see this year . . . it is a novel full of riches
Martyn Goff
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Quirky, rich, eccentric
Margaret Atwood ... Read more