Owls Do Cry (Paperback)

Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose days are marred by the velvet cloak of epilepsy; Chicks, the baby of the family; and Daphne, whose rich, poetic imagination condemns her to a life in institutions. 'Janet Frame's first full-length work of fiction, Owls Do Cry, is an exhilarating and dazzling prelude to her long and successful career. She was to write in several modes, publishing poems, short stories, fables and volumes of autobiography, as well as other novels of varied degrees of formal complexity, but Owls Do Cry remains unique in her oeuvre. It has the freshness and fierceness of a mingled cry of joy and pain. Its evocation of childhood recalls Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, as well as the otherworldly Shakespearean lyric of her title and epigraph, but her handling of her dark material is wholly original' Margaret Drabble

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Virago Modern Classics
Release date:	2016
Authors:	Janet Frame
Introduction by:	Margaret Drabble
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	239
ISBN-13:	978-0-349-00667-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-349-00667-9
Barcode:	9780349006673

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