The Daylight And The Dust

Zusatztext She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her Informationen zum Autor Janet Frame (1924-2004) is New Zealand's most famous writer. She was a novelist, poet, essayist and short-story writer. She sought the support and company of fellow writers and set out single-mindedly and courageously to achieve her goal of being a writer. She wrote her first novel, Owls Do Cry while staying with her mentor Frank Sargeson, and then left New Zealand, not to return for seven years. 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. Half-English/half-French, Michèle Roberts was born in 1949. DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE (1992) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the W.H. Smith Literary Award. She has just been appointed Professor of Creative Writing at UEA. Klappentext This collection of short stories offers the most comprehensive collection of Janet Frame's unique and powerful writing. Vorwort This collection of short stories offers the most comprehensive collection of Janet Frame's unique and powerful writing. Zusammenfassung This collection of short stories offers the most comprehensive collection of Janet Frame's unique and powerful writing.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Frame, Frame Janet
• Assisted by: Michele Roberts (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9781844084623
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-462-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; VMC; Virago modern classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Fiction: general and literary