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The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories

  • Author
    • Janet Frame
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'Frame achieved that supremely difficult task of finding a voice so natural' JANE CAMPION, GUARDIAN

'The idea of a new novel by Janet Frame is in itself a delight' MAGGIE O'FARRELL

'She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her' ELEANOR CATTON

The Daylight and the Dust
is the most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, taken from the four different collections released during her lifetime and featuring many of her best stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection The Lagoon and Other Stories, first published in 1952, right up to the volume You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, published in the 1980s. This new selection also includes five works that have not been collected before.

Her themes range from childhood to old age to death and beyond. Within the pages of one book the reader is transported from small town New Zealand to inner-city London, and from realism to fantasy. Janet Frame's versatility dazzles.

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  • Published: Jul 01 2010
  • Pages: 304
  • 130 x 200mm
  • ISBN: 9781844084623
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Press Reviews

  • Eleanor Catton

    She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her
  • Hilary Mantel

    Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life
  • Maggie O'Farrell

    The idea of a new novel by Janet Frame is in itself a delight
  • Jane Campion

    Guardian
    Frame achieved that supremely difficult task of finding a voice so natural it feels almost as if it were not written
  • Eleanor Catton

    She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her