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Prizes: The Selected Stories of Janet Frame
Prizes The Selected Stories of Janet Frame
Author: Janet Frame
The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, this exceptional collection has been chosen from the four different volumes released during her lifetime. Featuring the best of her stories, the book includes pieces that were written over four decades, including stories from her debut collection, The Lagoon and Other S...  more ». First published in 1951, those stories were written while Frame was confined in a mental hospital. When the collection won the Hubert Church Award, a threatened brain operation (akin to a lobotomy) was averted.

The stories in this new book also include selections from You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, published in the 1980s after a hiatus from writing. The last stories she published before her death, her writings from this time reveal Frame's unflinching ability to explore the drama of madness, isolation, and identity.

This new book also includes five short stories that have not been collected before, completing a volume that testifies to the brilliance of Janet Frame's life and literary talent.
ISBN-13: 9781582435152
ISBN-10: 1582435154
Publication Date: 12/15/2009
Pages: 396
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Publisher: Counterpoint
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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I ordered this after watching An Angel at my Table--the movie made of Janet Frame's autobiography. I was very intrigued as to what her writing would be like. These short stories were very good. A unique voice that I think was, for me, helped along by knowing her back story. I am now ready to read more of her work.
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