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Owls Do Cry: A Novel
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First Published In New Zealand In 1957, Owls Do Cry, Was Janet Frames Second Book And The First Of Her Thirteen Novels. Now Approaching Its 60Th Anniversary, It Is Securely A Landmark In Frames Catalog And Indeed A Landmark Of Modernist Literature. The Novel Spans Twenty Years In The Withers Family, Tracing Daphnes Coming Of Age Into A Postwar New Zealand Too Narrow To Know What To Make Of Her. She Is Deemed Mad, Institutionalized, And Made To Undergo A Risky Lobotomy. Margaret Drabble Calls Owls Do Cry A Song Of Survivalit Is Daphnes Song Of Survival But Also The Authors: Frame Was Herself Misdiagnosed With Schizophrenia And Scheduled For Brain Surgery. She Was Famously Saved Only When She Won New Zealands Premier Fiction Prize.Frame Was Among The First Major Writers Of The Twentieth Century To Confront Life In Mental Institutions And Owls Do Cry Is Important For This Perspective. But It Is Equally Valuable For Its Poetry, Its Incisive Satire, And Its Acute Social Observations. A Sensitively Rendered Portrait Of Childhood And Adolescence And A Testament To The Power Of Imagination, This Early Novel Is A Firstrate Example Of Frames Powerful, Lyric, And Original Prose.
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