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Overview
"Daughter Buffalo" is Janet Frame's only book set in the United States--in New York, where she once resided. The theme of human attitudes toward death is depicted through the eyes of the American narrator, Dr. Talbot Edelman. Ms. Frame suggests that rather than face the fact of death, we try to hide from it, to sweep it under the rug.Synopsis
"Daughter Buffalo" is Janet Frame's only book set in the United States--in New York, where she once resided. The theme of human attitudes toward death is depicted through the eyes of the American narrator, Dr. Talbot Edelman. Ms. Frame suggests that rather than face the fact of death, we try to hide from it, to sweep it under the rug.
Publishers Weekly
New Zealander Frame's 1972 novel Daughter Buffalo , her only work set in America, relates in an original fashion a doctor's reaction to a patient's death; The Adaptable Man , first published in 1965, contrasts an alienated young murderer with his antiquated father and uncle. (Aug.)