Author: Janet Frame Year: 1963 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction
Purchase/reserch links:
ISBNs: 9780807609859 0807609854 |
|
Sensory perceptions are the tools with which Janet Frame investigates the failure of human communication in this extraordinary tale of a mind gone mad, a world become insane. With alternating interior monologues, the author conjures up the members of the Glace family: Vera, the mother who has willed herself sightless; Erlene, the daughter, who has stopped speaking; and Edward, the husband who abandons his family to make a genealogical study of a family in a distant land. Beyond this is a mind that has burst the confines of everyday individual consciousness and invented its own tormented reality.
|