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 in Near Fine jacket. Fiction. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. This book is in near fine condition and appears unread. There are a few pages with rough cut top edges from not being cut properly at production. The dust jacket is in near fine condition, is not price clipped, and is in new mylar.
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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.
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First U.S. Edition, First Printing. --Haunting novel set in Puamahara, New Zealand. --Hardcover. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (faint surface scratches). *Nice collectible copy, without ownership, remainder mark or price-clip* ISBN 0807612057.