Janet Frame has been on my to-read list for some years and I'm finally getting around to her. I selected Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room because it—well, I—I guess I liked the title. Fact is, I wasn't sure what this book was about before I read it. There's no blurb on the physical book itself....
Istina Mavet, the narrator, is a young woman living in first one, then another, then the first again, mental hospitals in New Zealand. She narrates over about 9 years. I struggled with the first few chapters, as I could not see where this book was going. But where could it go? Once I let myself look...
bookshelves: winter-20122013, nonfiction, mental-health, autobiography-memoir, new-zealand, under-500-ratings, play-dramatisation Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from January 15 to 22, 2013 blurb: Janet Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public author. The author of twelve nove...
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...
blurb: Janet Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public author. The author of twelve novels, four story collections, one book of poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even at the height of her success Frame shunned publicity, which had the effect of making the media and her readership ...
My first real experience with severe mental illness came on my psychology internship at Beth Israel Hospital in NYC in 1993-94. In the inpatient world of New York in the 1990s, most treatment for severe mental illnesses such as major depression, bipoloar disorder, and schizophrenia was delivered via...
A well-written novel that makes much use of stream of consciousness, interior monologue, and multiple points of view. Fiction on an autobiographical base, Owls Do Cry focuses symbolically on finding self-defined and personally-recognized treasures in the rubbish. Psychologically realistic and deeply...
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