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Distance and familiarity, Lucy Prestidge
To the Is-Land Janet Frame Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9781869411305 The first volume of Janet Frame’s autobiography was initially a bit daunting to me. Not only because it’s the work of one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers, but because…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Janet Frame, Lucy Prestidge, Random House
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
New seeds for old, Kathryn Walls
The Mijo Tree Janet Frame (Deidre Copeland illus) Penguin, $25.00, ISBN 9780143569428 A Book is a Book Jenny Bornholdt (Sarah Wilkins illus) Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877579929 Dunger Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781977579462 Janet Frame sent the typescript…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Deidre Copeland, Gecko Press, Issue 105, Janet Frame, Jenny Bornholdt, Joy Cowley, Kathryn Walls, Penguin Books, Sarah Wilkins
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Literary dreams, Elspeth Sandys
In the Memorial Room Janet Frame Text, $35.00, ISBN 9781922147134 It will come as no surprise to readers of Janet Frame’s work that this hitherto unpublished novel is, before anything else, an examination of language, and the slippery, unreliable character…
Tagged with: Elspeth Sandys, Issue 102, Janet Frame, Text, Winter 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Reframing, Timothy G Jones
The Frame Function: An Inside-out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame Jan Cronin Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 9781869404864 The Frame Function, Jan Cronin’s new monograph treating the novels of Janet Frame, is not the book it appears…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 96, Jan Cronin, Janet Frame, Summer 2011, Timothy G Jones
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Good old immortal artists, Vincent O’Sullivan
Dear Charles Dear Janet: Frame and Brasch in Correspondence Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold (eds) Holloway Press, $250.00, ISBN 9780986461804 As I’ve thought before about the Holloway Press, it’s a tricky business to bring out works of deliberately…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Charles Brasch, Denis Harold, Holloway Press, Issue 93, Janet Frame, Pamela Gordon, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Fiction’s odd couple, Mark Williams
Gifted Patrick Evans Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736376 A curious rumour about this new novel by Patrick Evans preceded its publication. The rumour was that Evans had done something exceptionally good and it came from people one didn’t…
Tagged with: Frank Sargeson, Issue 92, Janet Frame, Mark Williams, Patrick Evans, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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