The edge of the alphabet
Frame, Janet2024
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Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world. 'The Edge of the Alphabet' is a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world.
Main title:
The edge of the alphabet / Janet Frame.
Author:
Frame, Janet, author
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024.
Collation:
296 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781804271186 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
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BRN:
2831564