Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame

Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her ideas behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: 'Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for the main character, and inventing minor characters. For Daphne I chose a sensitive, poetic frail person, who, I hoped, would give depth to inner worlds and perhaps a clearer, at least an individual, perception of outer worlds. The other characters, similarly fictional, were used to portray aspects of my 'message' - the excessively material outlooks of 'Chicks', the confusion of Toby, the earthy make-up of Francie, and the toiling parents, the nearest characters to my own parents.'.

Publisher:	Vintage/Random House New Zealand
Year:	1991
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781869411299
Condition:	Good

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SKU: 1602384
Location: NZ Fiction