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Title: Intensive Care: A Novel by Janet Frame ISBN: 0-8076-1341-X Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exquisite and thought-provoking
Comment: Intensive Care is a tale of two worlds: one that we know, and one that we foresee - and fear. It begins with Tom Livingstone, young and wounded in the trenches of Flanders: falling in love with his nurse, and learning first the value of life, and, much later, the value of death. Through his experiences and dreams we come to know and understand Tom and his family, and we gain a vivid, recognisable, poignant image of their world.
The story then moves to another world, an all too believable fantasy place, hardened by the horrors of a third global war; a world that has learned well the lessons that Tom had to work out for himself a century before. It is described in the deceptively simple language of Milly, who sits under Tom's old pear tree, waiting for the eugenic exterminators to take her away.
This is not science fiction, nor is it anti-Utopian: it is a prophecy, chilling in its logic and perception, of a 'civilisation' not unlike our own, that pursues human perfection both physical and mental through elimination of the substandard and the abnormal.
The author's themes are the harshness of people and the finality of death, which are with us and must be faced. The book is at once an exquisite evocation of the loneliness of people, and a plea for the resolution of humanity - before it is too late.
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Title: The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame ISBN: 0807612707 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Janet Frame: An Autobiography; Volume One : To the Is-Land, Volume Two : An Angel at My Table, Volume Three : The Envoy from Mirror City/ 3 Volumes by Janet Frame ISBN: 0807612596 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Faces in the Water by Janet Frame ISBN: 0807609579 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Scented Gardens for the Blind by Janet Frame ISBN: 0807609854 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 01 August, 1980 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: State of Siege by Janet Frame ISBN: 0807609862 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 01 August, 1980 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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