by Janet Frame
Published posthumously and based on her experience in France as a Katherine Mansfield fellowship winner, Janet Frame’s In The Memorial Room is part roman à clef and part satire. In the 1970s Harry Gill wins a memorial fellowship and heads to France to spend the year working on his next novel. Incre...
bookshelves: published-2013, new-zealand, net-galley, autumn-2013, books-about-books-and-book-shops, lit-richer Read from September 17 to 20, 2013 Counterpoint/Soft Skull PressThere is a small yet interesting history behind the making of this novel laid out as prologue.Opening: September 1973,Toda...
Counterpoint/Soft Skull PressThere is a small yet interesting history behind the making of this novel laid out as prologue.Opening: September 1973,Today I received word that my application for the Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship had been accepted and that I am to be next year's Fellow.Ooh wicked fun...