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Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame. A novel about life in a mental institution written with skill and sympathy...
Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame. Written with skill and sympathy, this novel of life in a mental institution is an unforgettable evocation of madness...
...Jack Kennedy have used since he became President (Virginia's Glen Ora. Papa Joe Kennedy's Palm Beach mansion, and the Hyannisport complex), Newport has special meaning. It was on the green-lawned, Angus-stocked, 97-acre Hammersmith Farm, owned by her stepfather and mother, Hugh and Janet Auchincloss, that Jackie spent her youthful summers. It was in the rambling, red-roofed Auchincloss manor that she made her 1947 debut. It was in Newport's St. Mary's Church that Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy were married in 1953, and on Hammersmith's spacious lawns that...
Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame. A brilliant, largely autobiographical novel about nine long years in a mental institution, done with toot sympathy and warm love for the sane and insane alike...
Like her accomplished New Zealand predecessors, Katherine Mansfield and Sylvia (Spinster) Ashton-Warner, Janet Frame, 36, writes with a cool eye, a detached sympathy, and a warm but un-sloppy love of sane and insane alike. The daughter of a New Zealand railwayman, Author Frame has herself been in and out of mental hospitals as a voluntary patient. Shy and wary of publicity, she has recently changed her name to Janet Clutha (after a New Zealand river). But, under whatever name, her writing is sensitive, and her evocation of madness unforgettable...