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Owls Do Cry is Janet Frames first novel. She describes her ideas behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: "Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for the main character, and inventing minor characters. For Daphne I chose a sensitive, poetic frail person, who, I hoped, would give depth to inner worlds and perhaps a clearer, at least an individual, perception of outer worlds. The other characters, similarly fictional, were used to portray aspects of my 'message' - the excessively material outlooks of 'Chicks', the confusion of Toby, the earthy make-up of Francie, and the toiling parents, the nearest characters to my own parents.
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Owls Do Cry, Janet Frame
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- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- Owls Do Cry
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Janet Frame
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 167
- ISBN10
- 1869411293
- ISBN13
- 9781869411299
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Psychological Topics, Family, Classics, 20th century, Mental Health, Loneliness, Poverty, New Zealand, Misfortune
- Original title
- Owls do cry
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Owls Do Cry is Janet Frames first novel. She describes her ideas behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: "Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for the main character, and inventing minor characters. For Daphne I chose a sensitive, poetic frail person, who, I hoped, would give depth to inner worlds and perhaps a clearer, at least an individual, perception of outer worlds. The other characters, similarly fictional, were used to portray aspects of my 'message' - the excessively material outlooks of 'Chicks', the confusion of Toby, the earthy make-up of Francie, and the toiling parents, the nearest characters to my own parents.