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Sensory perceptions are the tools with which Janet Frame investigates the failure of human communication in this extraordinary tale of a mind gone mad, a world become insane. With alternating interior monologues, the author conjures up the members of the Glace family: Vera, the mother who has willed herself sightless; Erlene, the daughter, who has stopped speaking; and Edward, the husband who abandons his family to make a genealogical study of a family in a distant land. Beyond this is a mind that has burst the confines of everyday individual consciousness and invented its own tormented reality.
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Scented Gardens for the Blind, Janet Frame
- Language
- Released
- 1980
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Scented Gardens for the Blind
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Janet Frame
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Released
- 1980
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 252
- ISBN10
- 0807609854
- ISBN13
- 9780807609859
- Series
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
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- Sensory perceptions are the tools with which Janet Frame investigates the failure of human communication in this extraordinary tale of a mind gone mad, a world become insane. With alternating interior monologues, the author conjures up the members of the Glace family: Vera, the mother who has willed herself sightless; Erlene, the daughter, who has stopped speaking; and Edward, the husband who abandons his family to make a genealogical study of a family in a distant land. Beyond this is a mind that has burst the confines of everyday individual consciousness and invented its own tormented reality.