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Towards Another Summer (2007)

by Janet Frame(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Vintage, Random House, New Zealand

review 1: Feeling the need to reread a Janet Frame again, I started on this just before setting out on the same journey I make every year myself, towards another summer. It'd been too long since I'd read Janet; I always come back to her books with great pleasure, losing myself in her magical gift for language, and recalling the journey that brought me to this point, assessing the latest stage. The older I get the more ill at ease in the world I feel—certainly nothing on the level of Grace Cleave—but I do have to wonder what the cost of being a migratory bird is.
review 2: Given Janet Frame's almost obsessive habit of revealing her most intimate thoughts and observations I can't understand why she thought Towards Another Summer was too personal to publish in her lifet... moreime. This is at the top of my favorite list of Frame books. There is a meditation on a walk in the snow she took to get away from the family she was staying with...boy, can I relate to that. Her descriptions of the ice, landscape and sense of solitude linger with me as if it were my own past experience remembered. Janet Frame's books deserve to be revisited again, and possibly again, like a complex and compellingly beautiful painting in a gallery. less

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