Owls Do Cry
This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of "The Carpathians", which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989.
This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of "The Carpathians", which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807609569 (0807609560)
ASIN: 807609560
Publish date: March 1st 1982
Publisher: George Braziller
Pages no: 210
Edition language: English
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...