In the Memorial Room
Text Publishing, $27.99 hb, 202 pp
Fiction
Feeding on the fellow
by Jane Sullivan •
This novel comes to us some forty years after it was written. Janet Frame (1924–2004) did not allow it to be published during her lifetime. Very probably she was anxious not to be seen as savaging the hands that had fed her: and it is indeed a gleeful, glorious savaging.
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