Prizes: The Selected Stories of Janet Frame
The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, this exceptional collection has been chosen from the four different volumes released during her lifetime. Featuring the best of her stories, this book includes pieces that were written over four decades, including stories from her debut collection, The Lagoon and Other Stories. First published in 1951, those stories were written while Frame was confined in a mental hospital. When the collection won the Hubert Church...
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The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame’s stories ever published, this exceptional collection has been chosen from the four different volumes released during her lifetime. Featuring the best of her stories, the book includes pieces that were written over four decades, including stories from her debut collection, The Lagoon and Other Stories. First published in 1951, those stories were written while Frame was confined in a mental hospital. When the collection won the Hubert Church Award, Frame was spared a controversial brain operation.The stories in this new book also include selections from You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, published in the 1980s after a hiatus from writing. As the last stories she published before her death, her writings from this time reveal Frame’s unflinching ability to explore the drama of madness, isolation, and identity.This new book also includes five short stories that have not been collected before, completing a volume that testifies to the brilliance of Janet Frame’s life and literary talent.Library JournalNew Zealander Frame (1924–2004), the multiple-award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet, is as famous for her epic personal history as for her career. Her first collection, The Lagoon and Other Stories, published in 1954, was written while Frame stayed in a mental hospital. This new anthology spans her lifetime and includes the best of four published collections—The Lagoon and Other Stories, Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies, The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches, and You Are Now Entering the Human Heart—plus five previously unpublished stories. Often melancholy but containing wonderful detail, imagery, and emotion, her works cover a wide range of topics like childhood, madness, relationships, identity, and more. Many of the stories are two-page shorts, a testament to Frame's skill in concision and economy of language. VERDICT Highly recommended for poets and short story enthusiasts, this collection may be particularly appealing to writers who have struggled professionally, as they may identify with some of the characters.—Sarah Conrad Weisman, Corning Community Coll., NY
Foreword 7\ From The Lagoon and Other Stories 9\ The Lagoon 11\ Keel and Kool 15\ My Cousins Who Could Eat Cooked Turnips 22\ Dossy 26\ Swans 28\ The Day of the Sheep 36\ Child 42\ Spirit 49\ My Father's Best Suit 51\ Miss Gibson and the Lumber-room 53\ A Note on the Russian War 57\ The Birds Began to Sing 59\ The Pictures 61\ My Last Story 66\ From Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies 69\ A Windy Day 71\ The Terrible Screaming 72\ The Mythmaker's Office 75\ The Pleasures of Arithmetic 80\ The Daylight and the Dust 82\ Solutions 83\ One Must Give Up 93\ Two Sheep 96\ From The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches 101\ The Reservoir 103\ Prizes 119\ A Sense of Proportion 127\ The Bull Calf 133\ The Teacup 144\ The Advocate 165\ The Chosen Image 167\ The Linesman 173\ How Can I Get in Touch with Persia? 175\ A Relative of the Famous 185\ The Triumph of Poetry 193\ From You Are Now Entering the Human Heart 219\ The Bath 221\ Winter Garden 230\ You Are Now Entering the Human Heart 236\ Insulation 241\ Uncollected Stories 249\ Lolly-Legs (1954) 251\ Face Downwards in the Grass (1957) 258\ A Boy's Will (1966) 265\ They Never Looked Back (1974) 280\ Two Widowers (1979) 288
\ Library JournalNew Zealander Frame (1924–2004), the multiple-award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet, is as famous for her epic personal history as for her career. Her first collection, The Lagoon and Other Stories, published in 1954, was written while Frame stayed in a mental hospital. This new anthology spans her lifetime and includes the best of four published collections—The Lagoon and Other Stories, Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies, The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches, and You Are Now Entering the Human Heart—plus five previously unpublished stories. Often melancholy but containing wonderful detail, imagery, and emotion, her works cover a wide range of topics like childhood, madness, relationships, identity, and more. Many of the stories are two-page shorts, a testament to Frame's skill in concision and economy of language. VERDICT Highly recommended for poets and short story enthusiasts, this collection may be particularly appealing to writers who have struggled professionally, as they may identify with some of the characters.—Sarah Conrad Weisman, Corning Community Coll., NY\ \
