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The adaptable man / Janet Frame.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Vintage N.Z., 1993.Description: 257 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 186941182X
  • 9781869411824
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 20
LOC classification:
  • PR9687.F81A8 1993
Summary: Modernisation, in the form of electricity and the overspill from London, confronts the inhabitants of the small English village of Little Burgelstatham in the richly textured The adaptable man. While some amongst the large cast of characters prefer to live in the past and avoid modern life, others adapt and welcome its arrival, not least Muriel Baldry who can now hang her Venini chandelier and throw a dinner party to celebrate. But does adapting to the twentieth century demand darker deeds?
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Fiction - New Zealand Fiction - New Zealand Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Fiction FRAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Long Term Storage A00042984

A novel.

"First published 1965 by the Pegasus Press, New Zealand, and W.H. Allen ... England"--Title page verso.

Modernisation, in the form of electricity and the overspill from London, confronts the inhabitants of the small English village of Little Burgelstatham in the richly textured The adaptable man. While some amongst the large cast of characters prefer to live in the past and avoid modern life, others adapt and welcome its arrival, not least Muriel Baldry who can now hang her Venini chandelier and throw a dinner party to celebrate. But does adapting to the twentieth century demand darker deeds?

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