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Owls Do Cry, The Pocket Mirror and An Angel at My Table
Owls Do Cry The Pocket Mirror and An Angel at My Table Author:Janet Frame Anthology of three of Janet Frame's works: Owls Do Cry is a haunting novel of four siblings in New Zealand for whom the source of all illusion and promise is the garbage dump at the edge of their town. In The Pocket Mirror, Janet Frame's only collection of poetry, she evenly balances contemplation of nature and of the human interior in poems suc... more »h as "The Sun" and "Words." And An Angel at My Table - made into a major motion picture by director Jane Campion - in one of the finest memoirs of this century. The second volume of Frame's autobiography, it is a coming-of-age odyssey and the story of her struggle to write despite years spent in mental hospitals. This edition also includes an introductory essay by George Braziller, Frame's American publisher, written upon the celebration of Frame's 70th birthday in 1994.« less