A state of siege
Frame, Janet2025
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In 'A State of Siege', Janet Frame brings her signature playfulness to paint a thrilling psychological portrait. After the death of her invalid mother, Malfred Signal, a retired New Zealand art teacher, leaves her birthplace in the south for a beach cottage on a sub-tropical island in the north. Freed from endless lessons on still life and the dominating presence of her family, she hopes at last to be alone with nature and the 'room two inches behind the eyes'. But the solitude she has sought mocks her with echoes of her past, when, one stormy night, an intruder pounds ceaselessly and inexplicably on her door.
Main title:
A state of siege / Janet Frame.
Author:
Frame, Janet, author
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: W.H. Allen, 1967.
ISBN:
9781804271995 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
9008776