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In the Memorial Room

In the Memorial Room( )
Author: Frame, Janet
ISBN:978-1-922147-13-4
Publication Date:Apr 2013
Publisher:Text Publishing Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $27.99
Book Description:

In the Memorial Roomis a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table.

Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship--a 'living memorial' to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the French Riviera town of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room is not suitable--it has no electricity or water. Hurndell...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Satire
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14 x 20.6 x 2.4 cm
Book Weight:0.327 Kilograms
Author Biography
Frame, Janet (Author)
Janet Frame is a writer. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1924.

Frame has written eleven novels, five collections of short stories, a volume of poetry, and a children's book. She has received the Commonwealth Literature Prize, the Turnavsky Prize, a Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, a Robert Burns Fellowship, and a Sargeson Fellowship. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature from Otago University and is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and she is a past President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors.

Her three autobiographies, To the Island, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City, were turned into a three-part television series, and then a 1990 motion picture directed by Jane Campion. Frame was awarded the CBE in 1983. In 2015 Janet Frame's 1957 debut novel, Owls Do Cry, topped the second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll run by the New Zealand Book Council and Auckland Writers Festival.

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