Prizes The Selected Stories of Janet Frame

by Frame, Janet

• ISBN13: 9781582436203
• ISBN10: 1582436207
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-01
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, this exceptional collection has been chosen from the four different volumes released during her lifetime.

Featuring the best of her stories, the book includes pieces that were written over four decades, including stories from her debut collection, The Lagoon and Other Stories. First published in 1951, those stories were written while Frame was confined in a mental hospital. When the collection won the Hubert Church Award, a threatened brain operation (akin to a lobotomy) was averted.

The stories in this new book also include selections from You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, published in the 1980s after a hiatus from writing. The last stories she published before her death, her writings from this time reveal Frame's unflinching ability to explore the drama of madness, isolation, and identity.

This new book also includes five short stories that have not been collected before, completing a volume that testifies to the brilliance of Janet Frame's life and literary talent.

Author Biography

Award-winning author Janet Frame was a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, and poet. Her memoir An Angel at My Table was adapted into a movie by Jane Campion. Frame died in 2004.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
From The Lagoon and Other Stories	p. 9
The Lagoon	p. 11
Keel and Kool	p. 15
My Cousins Who Could Eat Cooked Turnips	p. 22
Dossy	p. 26
Swans	p. 28
The Day of the Sheep	p. 36
Child	p. 42
Spirit	p. 49
My Father's Best Suit	p. 51
Miss Gibson and the Lumber-room	p. 53
A Note on the Russian War	p. 57
The Birds Began to Sing	p. 59
The Pictures	p. 61
My Last Story	p. 66
From Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies	p. 69
A Windy Day	p. 71
The Terrible Screaming	p. 72
The Mythmaker's Office	p. 75
The Pleasures of Arithmetic	p. 80
The Daylight and the Dust	p. 82
Solutions	p. 83
One Must Give Up	p. 93
Two Sheep	p. 96
From The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches	p. 101
The Reservoir	p. 103
Prizes	p. 119
A Sense of Proportion	p. 127
The Bull Calf	p. 133
The Teacup	p. 144
The Advocate	p. 165
The Chosen Image	p. 167
The Linesman	p. 173
How Can I Get in Touch with Persia?	p. 175
A Relative of the Famous	p. 185
The Triumph of Poetry	p. 193
From You Are Now Entering the Human Heart	p. 219
The Bath	p. 221
Winter Garden	p. 230
You Are Now Entering the Human Heart	p. 236
Insulation	p. 241
Uncollected Stories	p. 249
Lolly-Legs (1954)	p. 251
Face Downwards in the Grass (1957)	p. 258
A Boy's Will (1966)	p. 265
They Never Looked Back (1974)	p. 280
Two Widowers (1979)	p. 288
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