Owls Do Cry: Text Classics
Author(s): Janet Frame
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mills, hard drudgery sweetened with the thrill of riding a bike to work; Toby, who would rather play at the dump than go to school, where the dark velvet cloak of epilepsy often wraps itself around him; Chicks, the youngest; and Daphne, whose rich poetic way of seeing the world leads to a heartbreaking life in institutions. Janet Frame writes of hardship, poverty and tragedy with beauty and a deep sensitivity. Owls Do Cry is a poetic masterpiece.
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* Extract from Margaret Drabble's introduction to be placed in a major national newspaper * Review coverage in all major broadsheets in Australia and New Zealand * Review coverage in literary magazines and journals such as the Listener and Australian Book Review * Online review coverage * Radio review coverage on Radio National's Books & Arts Daily and Radio New Zealand * Reading copies available to the trade * Advertisements in literary and current affairs publications such as ABR, NZ Books and the Big Issue, and on their associated websites * Promotions and giveaways with targeted subscriber groups, including book lovers such as CAE, Good Reading and NZ Book Council * Featured in Text newsletters and website
'Owls Do Cry glows with the inner light of (Frame's) human awareness-a cool flame that neither cauterises nor heals but in some mystic ways purifies, substituting an essential beauty for superficial pain and squalor.' Sunday Herald Tribune 'When I first read it at 14, the same age as Daphne is in the novel...her dark eloquent song captured my heart.' Jane Campion
General Fields
- :
- : The Text Publishing Company
- : The Text Publishing Company
- : 0.222
- : April 2014
- : May 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Janet Frame
- : Janet Frame
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.2
- : good-very good
- : 304
- : FA
