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Owls Do Cry
- Narrated by: Heather Bolton
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her idea behind it in the second volume of her autobiography:
"Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for main characters, and inventing minor characters"
Regarded by many as one of the best New Zealand novels published, Owls Do Cry forms a loose trilogy with her two subsequent novels, Faces in the Water and The Edge of the Alphabet.
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- Muzza
- 11-03-19
well told but a wee bit depressing.
I now know why one leaves Dunedin in the 1950s and 60s. Funnily enough the weather does not feature as an aid to the claustrophobia smallness of NZ in the setting. she is a great writer but I will need a few months to worm out the dross of depression before attempting another Frame special.
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- Chloe
- 01-18-18
almost too real
great narration of a great book. a tragic but worthwhile piece of writing. I will be listening to this again
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