The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches - Softcover

Frame, Janet

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9780807613054: The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches

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ISBN 10: 0807613053 ISBN 13: 9780807613054

Publisher: George Braziller, 1993

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The Reservoir is a collection of stories, sketches, poetic fragments, and memoirs-as-short-story. Set mostly in the author's native New Zealand, these works depict humankind's battle against disillusionment and emptiness. In the title story, a little girl takes her first walk to a forbidden reservoir. The bad poet in "The Chosen Image" struggles until self-deception wins out. Lauded as "one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle), Frame displays her boundless imagination and magical use of language.

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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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A rare treat-poetic, witty, pungent with character and sharply anecdotal. There is much zestful reading here. -- Boston Sunday Herald

Frame writes with a beauty that confers a morbid grandeur, that makes poetry of the particular, the private, the enclosed. -- The New York Times

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