The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories

Author: Janet Frame; Michele S. Roberts (Introduction by)

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Price : $25.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781844084623
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint : Little Brown GBR
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Weight (g) : 0.208
Publication date : July 2010
Dimensions : 198mm X 126mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Availability date : July 2010
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Author : Janet Frame; Michele S. Roberts (Introduction by)
Series : Virago Modern Classics Ser.
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.914
Pages : 304
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'The Daylight and the Dust' is a comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's short stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection 'The Lagoon and Other Stories', right up to 'You Are Now Entering the Human Heart'.

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A collection of short stories by the author of An Angel at My Table.

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She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her -- Eleanor Catton

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Janet Frame (1924-2004) is New Zealand's most famous writer. She was a novelist, poet, essayist and short-story writer. 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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