Living in the Maniototo Tapa blanda - 2008

Vintage, Australia, 2008. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Medium Trade Paperback. 236 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Vintage, Australia, 2008. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Through the eyes of a woman of myriad personalities - ventriloquist, gossip and writer - Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction: the avoidances, interruptions and irrelevancies, as well as a teasing blurring between fact and fiction. The landscape of the Maniototo becomes 'the bloody plain' of the imagination, as the narrator tells us about her marriages and children, her friends (real and imagined), her travels (between New Zealand and the United States) and her stay in the house left in her care by friends travelling in Italy. She must face the reality of death as well as probe the authenticity of the… Leer más