Living In The Maniototo

Janet Frame

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Through the eyes of a woman of myriad personalities - ventriloquist, gossip and writer - Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction.

Through the eyes of a woman of myriad personalities - ventriloquist, gossip and writer - Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction: the avoidances, interruptions and irrelevancies, as well as a teasing blurring between fact and fiction.

The landscape of the Maniototo becomes 'the bloody plain' of the imagination, as the narrator tells us about her marriages and children, her friends (real and imagined), her travels (between New Zealand and the United States) and her stay in the house left in her care by friends travelling in Italy. She must face the reality of death as well as probe the authenticity of the modern world.

Published: 1 September 2012
ISBN: 9781742749167
Imprint: Random House Australia
Format: EBook
Pages: 256

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Janet Frame

Janet Paterson Frame (1924-2004) is New Zealand's most internationally acclaimed and distinguished author. She received numerous awards, prizes, grants, fellowships and scholarships in New Zealand and abroad, including honorary doctorates from the universities of Otago and Waikato. In 1983 she was awarded a CBE for services to literature, and in 1990 was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the country's highest civil honour.

In her lifetime Janet Frame published eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, a children's book and three volumes of autobiography. Another novel, a book of poetry, a compilation of selected stories and a non-fiction collection have since been published posthumously and future publications containing new and previously uncollected material are planned.

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Praise for Living In The Maniototo

Quirky, rich, eccentric
Margaret Atwood

Probably as near a masterpiece as we are likely to see this year... it is a novel full of riches.
The Daily Telegraph (UK)

Puts everything else that has come my way this year in the shade.
The Guardian

The most original and resourceful novel I have read for a long time.
New Statesman

Frame’s novel is remarkable - full of word plays, cameo portraits and deliberate mystery
Publisher’s Weekly

Frame's writing has the unique quality of being both eccentric and central to the precarious business of our psycho-social existence. She offers us expressions of uncommonly articulated but familiar experience. Known for her ability to focus on alienation, madness and death, she is nevertheless capable of affirming the most exquisite sensations of being alive
The Australian