Owls Do Cry

✍ Scribed by Janet Frame

• Book ID: 100456980
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 1957
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 124 KB
• Edition: Text Publishing Company (2014)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781922147899
• ASIN: B00ILVZ7PI

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 239 pages
Published 1957
Text Publishing Company (2014)
Introduction by: Margaret Drabble (2014)
"Owls Do Cry" tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mills, hard drudgery sweetened with the thrill of riding a bike to work; Toby, who would rather play at the dump than go to school, where the dark velvet cloak of epilepsy often wraps itself around him; Chicks, the youngest; and Daphne, whose rich poetic way of seeing the world leads to a heartbreaking life in institutions.
Janet Frame writes of hardship, poverty and tragedy with beauty and a deep sensitivity. "Owls Do Cry "is a poetic masterpiece.
Janet Frame is one of New Zealand's greatest writers. Born in Dunedin in 1924, she published twenty-one books in her lifetime and several posthumously. Her autobiographical work An Angel at My Table was made into a film by Jane Campion in 1990. Janet Frame died in 2004.