A State of Siege: Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 11 - Tapa blanda

Frame, Janet

 
9781804271995: A State of Siege: Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 11
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ISBN 10: 1804271993 ISBN 13: 9781804271995
Editorial: Faber and Faber, 2025

Sinopsis

In A State of Siege, Janet Frame brings her signature playfulness to paint a thrilling psychological portrait. After the death of her invalid mother, Malfred Signal, a retired New Zealand art teacher, leaves her birthplace in the south for a beach cottage on a sub-tropical island in the north. Freed from endless lessons on still life and the dominating presence of her family, she hopes at last to be alone with nature and the 'room two inches behind the eyes'. But the solitude she has sought mocks her with

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Janet Frame (1924–2004) was a celebrated New Zealand author of novels, short stories, poetry and the three-volume autobiography An Angel at My Table that was adapted for cinema by Jane Campion. Janet Frame won numerous local and international literary prizes including the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book. She was an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and held two honorary doctorates. She was awarded a CBE in 1983 and in 1990 she was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the country’s highest civil honour. Her work is in print around the world and has been translated into many languages.



Chris Kraus is the author of five novels, most recently The Four Spent the Day Together, and a co-editor of the independent press Semiotext(e). She partly grew up in New Zealand, reading Janet Frame.

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In A State of Siege, Janet Frame brings her signature playfulness to paint a thrilling psychological portrait. After the death of her invalid mother, Malfred Signal, a retired New Zealand art teacher, leaves her birthplace in the south for a beach cottage on a sub-tropical island in the north. Freed from endless lessons on still life and the dominating presence of her family, she hopes at last to be alone with nature and the 'room two inches behind the eyes'. But the solitude she has sought mocks her with

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Editorial
Faber and Faber
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1804271993
ISBN 13 
9781804271995
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
224
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9780807609866: State of Siege

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ISBN 10:  0807609862 ISBN 13:  9780807609866
Editorial: George Braziller Inc, 1980
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