In the Memorial Room: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Frame, Janet

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1619021757 ISBN 13 : 9781619021754

Editeur : Counterpoint, 2013

Synopsis

Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress–Armstrong Fellowship—a ‘living memorial' to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room is not suitable—it has no electricity or water. Hurndell never wrote here, though it is expected of Harry.



Janet Frame's previously unpublished novel draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. It is a wonderful social satire, a send–up of the cult of the dead author, and—in the best tradition of Frame—a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Janet Frame (1924 - 2004) was one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers. She is best known for An Angel at My Table, which the Sunday Times of London called "one of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century," and inspired Jane Campion's internationally acclaimed film. Throughout her long career, Frame received a wide range of awards, including every literary prize for which she was eligible in New Zealand, honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Counterpoint
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1619021757
• ISBN 13: 9781619021754
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible