Faces In The Water Faces In The Water

Faces In The Water

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Descrizione dell’editore

'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature' ANITA BROOKNER

'Lyrical, touching and deeply entertaining' JOHN MORTIMER, OBSERVER

'Any one of her books could be published today and it would be ground-breaking' ELEANOR CATTON

'I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by more than locked doors and barred windows from the people who called themselves sane.'

When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that she write about her traumatic experiences in mental institutions in order to free herself from them, the result was Faces in the Water, a powerful and poignant novel.

Istina Mavet descends through increasingly desolate wards, with the threat of leucotomy ever present. As she observes her fellow patients, long dismissed by hospital staff with humour and compassion, she reveals her original and questing mind. This riveting novel became an international classic, translated into nine languages, and has also been used as a medical school text.

Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

GENERE
Narrativa e letteratura
PUBBLICATO
2015
5 febbraio
LINGUA
EN
Inglese
PAGINE
240
EDITORE
Little, Brown Book Group
DIMENSIONE
638,9
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