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Flower Phantoms (Paperback)
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Flower Phantoms (Paperback)
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Loot Price R497
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" P]robably the most distinguished writer of English prose in the
novel form at present living. He cannot do other than write
beautifully." - Humbert Wolfe
"The book abounds in glowing experiences of a world of colour and
sensation, minutely imagined. . . . The description of dawn at Kew
Gardens is so lovely that the reader will be tempted to endanger
his respectability by emulating Judy and climbing the wall." -
"Times Literary Supplement"
"Among the few highly important and significant novelists of the
day." - "The Observer"
"There is poetry beneath Mr. Fraser's fantastic humour as there is
a cunning grace in his prose." - "The Times"
"The erotic awakening of a young woman . . . Judy, a student at
Kew Gardens . . . is engaged to a personable young man who does not
have the ability to arouse her, though she likes him, and she is
disturbed by the utilitarian, materialistic life-philosophy of her
businessman brother. She becomes more and more sensitive to the
hidden life of the plants at Kew, and comes to see them as
personalities, with the giant orchid in the role of passionate
lover. . . . Told with delicate imagery and fine perceptions, a
minor rococoism of art deco literature." - E.F. Bleiler, "The Guide
to Supernatural Fiction" (1983)
This first-ever reprinting of "Flower Phantoms" (1926), the
best-known novel by Ronald Fraser (1888-1974), features a new
introduction by Mark Valentine.
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