Thursday, August 16, 2012

New Janet Frame collection hits best seller list


 Wednesday August 15, 2012 Source: ONE News

New Janet Frame collection hits best seller list  (Source: ONE News)
  • Janet Frame - Source: ONE News
Janet Frame may have passed away eight years ago, but she is still delighting readers with never before published manuscripts.
Her latest book, entitled Gorse is Not People, New and Uncollected Stories, has been in stores a week and is already second best seller on the New Zealand fiction list.
A novel, a volume of poetry, and a handful of Frame's short stories have already been published posthumously.
Frame's niece, Pamela Gordon says the latest collection promises to be just as varied.
"There are some fine stories in this book that have been silenced for far too long," she says.
"There's social criticism, there's social realism and then there's also some fables, there's a couple of stories that were published in the school journal, so they were ostensibly children's stories."
There are 28 stories in the new book, most of which have never been published before.
Gordon says there are more unpublished manuscripts, so the book may not be the last by Frame.


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