The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories by Janet Frame

The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories by Janet Frame

'Frame achieved that supremely difficult task of finding a voice so natural' JANE CAMPION, GUARDIAN 'The idea of a new novel by Janet Frame is in itself a delight' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her' ELEANOR CATTON The Daylight and the Dust is the most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, taken from the four different collections released during her lifetime and featuring many of her best stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection The Lagoon and Other Stories, first published in 1952, right up to the volume You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, published in the 1980s. This new selection also includes five works that have not been collected before. Her themes range from childhood to old age to death and beyond. Within the pages of one book the reader is transported from small town New Zealand to inner-city London, and from realism to fantasy. Janet Frame's versatility dazzles.

Frame achieved that supremely difficult task of finding a voice so natural it feels almost as if it were not written -- Jane Campion * Guardian *
The idea of a new novel by Janet Frame is in itself a delight -- Maggie O'Farrell
She is a singular writerNo one is quite like her -- Eleanor Catton
Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life -- Hilary Mantel
She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her -- Eleanor Catton

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.

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ISBN 13	9781844084623
ISBN 10	1844084620
Title	The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories
Author	Janet Frame
Series	Virago Modern Classics
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2010-07-01
Number of pages	304
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