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Synopsis
This novel depicts the confinement of the mad and the banishment and punishment of those whose only reaction to an insane world is to enter a realm of self-creation.
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Review
One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature ... A masterpiece (Anita Brookner)
What an extraordinary woman she is, overcoming such obstacles, and making fresh and good use of them in her work (Doris Lessing)
Lyrical, touching and deeply entertaining (John Mortimer, Observer)
Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life . . . and yet to read her is no more difficult than breathing (Hilary Mantel)
Janet Frame is the greatest New Zealand writer. She is utterly herself. Any one of her books could be published today and it would be ground-breaking (Eleanor Catton)
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'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature ... A masterpiece' Anita Brookner
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Faces in the Water
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Women's Press, Limited, The, 2000
ISBN 10: 0704338610
ISBN 13: 9780704338616
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Faces in the Water
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The Women s Press Ltd., Namara Group, London, 1993
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Buchrücken knickspurig und lesebedingt verzogen, 254 S., paperback, kart. "A masterpiece" (Anita Brookner). Gramm 600 (EA 1961; dt.EA München 1994 u.d.T. "Gesichter im Wasser"). Seller Inventory # 67882
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FACES IN THE WATER (First UK paperback edition)
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The Women's Press, London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0704338610
ISBN 13: 9780704338616
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Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition of the authors third published book, and second novel. The book was first published in the UK in hardback by W. H. Allen in 1962, and originally in New Zealand by Pegasus Press in 1961. ***Near fine in colour illustrated card covers, which are just very slightly rubbed at the edges. No creases or tears. No reading creases to the spine. Covers clean and bright. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Paper stock just slightly tanned. No tears. ***254 pages. 196mm x 126mm. ***'Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and psychiatric hospitalisation from a fictional perspective, and her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film "An Angel at My Table" (1990), directed by Jane Campion.' (Wiki) ***'Like the late Jean Rhys, this remarkable New Zealand novelist has built up a reputation that fair dazzles, and deservedly so' (Publishers weekly). ***'"Faces in the Water" is about confinement in mental institutions, about the fear the sane have of the mad and the ways in which that fear transforms into banishment and punishment of those whose reaction to a truly cruel and insane world is to move into a world which is self-created.' (Quote and review quote taken from the back cover) ***First UK paperback edition of Janet Frame's second novel. An uncommon title to find now in the first Women's Press first printing. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 1969z
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