What happens when the town of Puamahara begins to profit from its legend and the astronomers discovering the Gravity Star predict an unthinkable future? Mattina Brecon, a New Yorker, arrives in Kowhai Street, Puamahara, where her painstaking study of her neighbours is interrupted by a new kind of cataclysmic event. Mattina finds herself in possession of a Kowhai Street that is without people, language or memory. This novel won the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Ansett New Zealand Book Award. It was Janet Frame's ...
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What happens when the town of Puamahara begins to profit from its legend and the astronomers discovering the Gravity Star predict an unthinkable future? Mattina Brecon, a New Yorker, arrives in Kowhai Street, Puamahara, where her painstaking study of her neighbours is interrupted by a new kind of cataclysmic event. Mattina finds herself in possession of a Kowhai Street that is without people, language or memory. This novel won the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Ansett New Zealand Book Award. It was Janet Frame's last novel.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x5x1; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & foxing on edges of text block. Dj lightly shelf worn around edges with small scuffs, soiling & scratches. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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Near Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Spine a little sunned, faint stain on the edge of one leaf, else near fine. Publisher's promotional material laid in. Memoir of the New Zealand author's life and work.
