Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories - Rilegato

Frame, Janet

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ISBN 10: 1619021692 ISBN 13: 9781619021693

Casa editrice: Counterpoint, 2013

Riassunto

A collection of 28 short stories spanning the length of the author's career includes several being published for the first time, including the rejected 1954 piece, "Gorse is Not People" and "The Gravy Boat," which was read aloud by the author during a 1953 radio broadcast. 15,000 first printing.

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Praise for Between My Father and the King

This new collection of 28 short stories that span [Frame’s] career (many of which have never been published) showcases her extraordinary gifts as an imaginative storyteller with a singular viewpoint. . .These stories with themes of despair, disappointment, and wonder, underscored by Frame’s melancholy and vivid turns of phrase are beautifully rendered.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A powerful collection." Kirkus

"Frame’s ability to distill an experience and sometimes an entire life into a few pages was remarkable. Her characters yearn, and ache, and are overtaken by wonder. She was an emotional cartographer of the highest order, one who deeply understood the inner workings of the human heart." The Rumpus

"The title story stands as the epitome of her traits and merits in the short form. It is a tight, first-person, tongue-in-cheek remembrance of the narrator’s father’s debt to the English king for money borrowed to buy new furniture and of how the king’s representative just might stop in at any time to make certain the furniture is being well taken care of! This and all the other stories in the collection demonstrate writerly genius in every sentence, are told with charming and often wicked wit, boast visual images conjured with nimble wordplay ( The sky sagged in the middle, there didn’t seem to be enough head-room”), and display a warm intimacy between the author and her prose as she writes close to the psychological and autobiographical bone."—Booklist

L'autore:

Janet Frame (19242004) was one of New Zealand’s most distinguished writers. She is best known forAn 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.

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• Editore: Counterpoint
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1619021692
• ISBN 13: 9781619021693
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 252