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Owls do cry / Janet Frame.

Title
Owls do cry / Janet Frame.
Author
Frame, Janet
Publication
Glenfield, Auckland : Vintage, 1991, c1961.

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167 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
Owls Do Cry is one of the classics of New Zealand literature, and has remained in print continuously for fifty years. Set in provincial, pre-1940 New Zealand, this novel explores the Withers family and in particular Daphne. When one of Daphne's sisters, Francie, dies at the rubbish dump where the children search for treasure, a crisis is provoked which leads Daphne to a mental asylum where she is given shock treatment. Owls Do Cry forms a loose trilogy with two subsequent novels, Faces in the Water and The Edge of the Alphabet.
Subject
  • Women authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Biography
  • Authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Biography
  • Mental illness > Fiction
  • Alienation (Social psychology) > Fiction
  • New Zealand
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Fiction
  • New Zealand fiction – 20th century.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 1869411293
  • 9781869411299
OCLC
  • 26961640
  • SCSB-10787729
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Harvard Library