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Living in the Maniototo: a Novel 2nd edition
Janet Frame
Living in the Maniototo: a Novel 2nd edition
Janet Frame
Welcome to the comical, ironical, and multiple worlds of one Violet Pansy Proudlock (a ventriloquist), who is also known as Alice Thumb (a gossip and secret sharer of limited imaginings) and, at other times, as Mavis Furness Barnwell Halleton (a writer twice married).
We follow Mavid through two marriages and watch her bury two husbands. Above all, we are privy to the attendant avoidances, interruptions, and irrelevancies that are part of her attempt to complete a novel. It's a process that is painful, joyful, rueful, and profound. Through it all, Violet-Alice-Mavis chooses to be the entertainer, to make us laugh and cry, to be the ventriloquist who dares to enter the speech of others and expose them.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 17, 1980 |
ISBN13 | 9780807609583 |
Publishers | George Braziller Inc. |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 140 × 210 × 20 mm · 322 g |
Language | English |
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