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In the Memorial Room is a witty and playful, previously unpublished novel by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table.

Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship—a 'living memorial' to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room is not suitable—it has no electricity or water. Hurndell never wrote here, though it is expected of Harry.

Janet Frame's previously unpublished novel draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. It is a wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of the dead author, and—in the best tradition of Frame—a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language.

Janet Frame is one of New Zealand's greatest writers. Born in Dunedin in 1924, she...

Request Code : ZLIBIO2676306
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Year:
2015
Publisher:
The Text Publishing Company
Language:
English
Pages:
pages
ISBN 10:
1925240150
ISBN 13:
9781922148223
ISBN:
9781925240153,9781922148223,1925240150
Series:
Text classics

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