Owls Do Cry: Text Classics

Author: Janet Frame

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  • : $12.95 AUD
  • : 9781922147899
  • : The Text Publishing Company
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  • : April 2014
  • : 198mm X 128mm
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  • : May 2014
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  • : Janet Frame
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  • : English
  • : 823.2
  • : 304
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9781922147899

Description

So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mills, hard drudgery sweetened with the thrill of riding a bike to work; Toby, who would rather play at the dump than go to school, where the dark velvet cloak of epilepsy often wraps itself around him; Chicks, the youngest; and Daphne, whose rich poetic way of seeing the world leads to a heartbreaking life in institutions. Janet Frame writes of hardship, poverty and tragedy with beauty and a deep sensitivity. Owls Do Cry is a poetic masterpiece.

Promotion info

* Extract from Margaret Drabble's introduction to be placed in a major national newspaper * Review coverage in all major broadsheets in Australia and New Zealand * Review coverage in literary magazines and journals such as the Listener and Australian Book Review * Online review coverage * Radio review coverage on Radio National's Books & Arts Daily and Radio New Zealand * Reading copies available to the trade * Advertisements in literary and current affairs publications such as ABR, NZ Books and the Big Issue, and on their associated websites * Promotions and giveaways with targeted subscriber groups, including book lovers such as CAE, Good Reading and NZ Book Council * Featured in Text newsletters and website

Reviews

'Owls Do Cry glows with the inner light of (Frame's) human awareness-a cool flame that neither cauterises nor heals but in some mystic ways purifies, substituting an essential beauty for superficial pain and squalor.' Sunday Herald Tribune 'When I first read it at 14, the same age as Daphne is in the novel...her dark eloquent song captured my heart.' Jane Campion

Author description

Janet Frame is one of New Zealand's greatest writers. Born in Dunedin in 1924, she published twenty-one books in her lifetime and several posthumously. Her autobiographical work An Angel at My Table was made into a film by Jane Campion in 1990. Janet Frame died in 2004.