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One day in 1955, the "father of New Zealand fiction" finds a young woman on his doorstep. A writer herself, she has recently emerged from a lengthy stay in the hospital for mental health problems and is seeking a safe place to live and write. The woman is Janet Frame, and the man who willingly takes her in is Frank Sargeson. Imaginative and intriguing, this novel explores two famous New Zealand personalities through a fictionalized account of the time they spent living together.

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Produktbeschreibung
One day in 1955, the "father of New Zealand fiction" finds a young woman on his doorstep. A writer herself, she has recently emerged from a lengthy stay in the hospital for mental health problems and is seeking a safe place to live and write. The woman is Janet Frame, and the man who willingly takes her in is Frank Sargeson. Imaginative and intriguing, this novel explores two famous New Zealand personalities through a fictionalized account of the time they spent living together.
Autorenporträt
Patrick Evans has taught New Zealand literature at the University of Canterbury for more than 30 years. He is a former professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia; a visiting professor at Bethany College in West Virginia; and the author of numerous books, including Being Eaten Alive, An Inward Sun: The Novels of Janet Frame, and Making It.