- Title:
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In the Memorial Room (MP3)
- Written by:
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Janet Frame
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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4 hours 37 minutes
- MP3 size:
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200 MB
- Published:
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July 28 2017
- Available Date:
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July 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489399687
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
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'[T]his book is marvelous experimental fiction ... Frame's sentences are marvels, winding like narrow alleys through hill towns: They open spectacular vistas. Brilliant.'
Kirkus Reviews, starred
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table.
Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship – a 'living memorial' to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room is not suitable – it has no electricity or water. Hurndell never wrote here, though it is expected of Harry.
Janet Frame's previously unpublished novel draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. It is a wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of the dead author, and – in the best tradition of Frame – a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language.
'This short, funny and often beautifully written novel – completed in the early 1970s but just now being published – provides an excellent occasion for remembering the weird wisdom and genuine talent of Janet Frame.'
The New York Times
'[T]he story is also a beautifully crafted artistic and philosophical creation that explores the nature of communication and exposes Frame's love of language ...'
Library Journal