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Scented Gardens for the Blind

Sensory perceptions are the tools with which Janet Frame investigates the failure of human communication in this extraordinary tale of a mind gone mad, a world become insane. With alternating interior monologues, the author conjures up the members of the Glace family: Vera, the mother who has willed herself sightless; Erlene, the daughter, who has stopped speaking; and Edward, the husband who abandons his family to make a genealogical study of a family in a distant land. Beyond this is a mind that has burst the confines of everyday individual consciousness and invented its own tormented reality.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 252
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780807609859
  • Genres
  • fiction, novels, classics, womens, adult, literature
  • Release date
  • 1980