Gorse is Not People by Janet Frame review

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25th August, 2012
It is astonishing to see the new books by Janet Frame appearing from her unpublished papers. So far two collections of poems, a novel, non-fiction and now this latest – a book of stories. More than half the 28 stories in Gorse is Not People have not been published before and none of them have been collected. The Janet Frame Literary Trust trustees who produced the book, Frame’s niece Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold, note in their preface that the stories begin with University Entrance, the first story Frame published as an adult in 1946 (I remember hunting this down once in ...

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