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"Daughter Buffalo" is Janet Frame's only book set in the United States--in New York, where she once resided. The theme of human attitudes toward death is depicted through the eyes of the American narrator, Dr. Talbot Edelman. Ms. Frame suggests that rather than face the fact of death, we try to hide from it, to sweep it under the rug.
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Daughter Buffalo is Janet Frame's only book set in the United States--in New York, where she once resided. The theme of human attitudes toward death is depicted through the eyes of the American narrator, Dr. Talbot Edelman. Ms. Frame suggests that rather than face the fact of death, we try to hide from it, to sweep it under the rug.
About the Author
Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories, a volume of poetry, a children's book, and her heartfelt and courageous autobiography, all published by George Braziller.
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Daughter Buffalo
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W. H. Allen, London, 1973
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Daughter Buffalo
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W. H. Allen, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 049100883X
ISBN 13: 9780491008839
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. First UK edition. 212 pages. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Owner's signature. Minor stain to page edges. Light shelfwear to edges of boards. 3/4" circular stain on front free endpaper and front flap of dustwrapper. 1/2" chip in front flap of dustwrapper. Some foxing to dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped. Dustwrapper protected in archival mylar cover. "I am Talbot Edelman, medical graduate, a student of death, writing of a time now or long past which appears as a dream [.]".; 8vo. Seller Inventory # 002124
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