Review
It is more like a dream than fiction . [Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room is] about madness. She meditates upon the disrelation between inner and outer landscapes, mental and physical colors, cruelty and the withdrawal from cruelty, the experience.of chaos, of inexplicable evils, of broken perceptions and intuitions of display and splinters of demonic force. ... A cold, haunted, brilliant book - a moon in the night's imagination. -- The New York Times
The author probes the very depths of her characters and leaves them exposed for all to see.... Miss Frame has constructed a tremendously moving novel. -- Press, Pittsburgh, PA
This well-written novel is a remarkable study of human nature, and the conscious and unconscious cruelties that humans are capable of. Miss Frame is most effective in using her large, poetic powers as she portrays the disintegration of the Rainbird family and all of the community ties that once bound them securely to the world around them. -- Deland Sun News
The author probes the very depths of her characters and leaves them exposed for all to see.... Miss Frame has constructed a tremendously moving novel. -- Press, Pittsburgh, PA
This well-written novel is a remarkable study of human nature, and the conscious and unconscious cruelties that humans are capable of. Miss Frame is most effective in using her large, poetic powers as she portrays the disintegration of the Rainbird family and all of the community ties that once bound them securely to the world around them. -- Deland Sun News
About the Author
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.
