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Scented gardens for the blind ; and, The adaptable man / Janet Frame.

Title: Scented gardens for the blind ; and, The adaptable man / Janet Frame.
Author: Frame, Janet
Publication: Auckland, N.Z. : Vintage, 2007.

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Description

526 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Scented gardens for the blind ostensibly follows the members of the fractured Glace family, suffering from different forms of sensory deprivation - the daughter mute, the mother blind, the father estranged - yet each living in a vivid world of their own making. While the father looks to the past in his obsessions with genealogy and toy soldiers, the modern age hangs over them with the hint of nuclear apocalypse. But all is not what it seems."--Back cover.
Modernisation, in the form of electricity and the overspill from London, confronts the inhabitants of the small English village of Little Burgelstatham in the richly textured The adaptable man. While some amongst the large cast of characters prefer to live in the past and avoid modern life, others adapt and welcome its arrival, not least Muriel Baldry who can now hang her Venini chandelier and throw a dinner party to celebrate. But does adapting to the twentieth century demand darker deeds?

Series Statement

Alternative Title

Adaptable man.

Genre/Form

New Zealand fiction – 20th century.

Note

Scented gardens for the blind originally published 1963. The adaptable man originally published 1965.
Two novels.

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