Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories, a volume of poetry, a children's book, and her heartfelt and courageous autobiography -- all published by George Braziller. This fall, we celebrate our thirty-ninth year of publishing Frame's extraordinary writing.
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Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories, a volume of poetry, a children's book, and her heartfelt and courageous autobiography--all published by George Braziller.
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Intensive Care is a tale of two worlds: one that we know, and one that we foresee - and fear. It begins with Tom Livingstone, young and wounded in the trenches of Flanders: falling in love with his nurse, and learning first the value of life, and, much later, the value of death. Through his experiences and dreams we come to know and understand Tom and his family, and we gain a vivid, recognisable, poignant image of their world.The story then moves to another world, an all too believable fantasy place, hardened by the horrors of a third global war; a world that has learned well the lessons that Tom had to work out for himself a century before. It is described in the deceptively simple language of Milly, who sits under Tom's old pear tree, waiting for the eugenic exterminators to take her away. This is not science fiction, nor is it anti-Utopian: it is a prophecy, chilling in its logic and perception, of a 'civilisation' not unlike our own, that pursues human perfection both physical and mental through elimination of the substandard and the abnormal. The author's themes are the harshness of people and the finality of death, which are with us and must be faced. The book is at once an exquisite evocation of the loneliness of people, and a plea for the resolution of humanity - before it is too late.
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