The Daylight And The Dust

Selected Short Stories By Janet Frame

Janet Frame

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Vintage
01 July 2010

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

The Daylight and the Dust- Selected Short Stories 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.

The Daylight and the Dust- Selected Short Stories 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.

Written over four decades, the stories' 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, and this volume offers the perfect sample of the many styles of her unique and powerful writing.

By: Janet Frame
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN: 9781741666076
ISBN 10: 1741666074
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 July 2010
Audience: General/trade , General , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Janet Frame was the author of eleven novels, five collections of stories, two volumes of poetry, a children's book and a three-volume autobiography now collected as An Angel at My Table.