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Scented Gardens for the Blind

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 252

Format: Paperback

Publisher: George Braziller Inc.

Release: September 17, 1980

ISBN: 0807609854

ISBN 13: 9780807609859

Scented Gardens for the Blind

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 252

Format: Paperback

Publisher: George Braziller Inc.

Release: September 17, 1980

ISBN: 0807609854

ISBN 13: 9780807609859

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