Prizes : selected short stories / Janet Frame.

Includes bibliographical references (page 17).

From The lagoon and other stories -- The Lagoon -- Keel and Kool -- My cousins who could eat cooked turnips -- Dossy -- Swans -- The day of the sheep -- Child -- Spirit -- My father's best suit -- Miss Gibson and the lumber-room -- A note on the Russian war -- The birds began to sing -- The pictures -- My last story -- From Snowm snowman: Fables and fantasies -- A windy day -- The terrible screaming -- The mythmaker's office -- The pleasures of arithmetic -- The daylight and the dust -- Solutions -- One must give up -- Two sheep -- From The reservoir: Stories and sketches -- The reservoir -- Prizes -- A sense of proportion -- The bull calf -- The teacup -- The advocate -- The chosen image -- The linesman -- How can I get i touch with Persia? -- A relative of the famous -- The triumph of poestry -- From You are now entering the human heart -- The bath -- Winter garden -- You are now entering the human heart -- Insultation -- Uncollected stories -- Looly-legs (1954) -- Face downwards in the grass (1957) -- A boy's will (1966) -- They never looked back (1974) -- Two widowers (1979).

Prizes brings together stories taken from four different collections released during the author's lifetime. Written over four decades, they come from The Lagoon and Other Stories first published in 1952, right up to the volume You are Now Entering the Human Heart published in the 1980s. This new selection also includes five works that have not been collected before. Her themes range from childhood to old age to death and beyond. Within the pages of one book the reader is transported from small town New Zealand to inner city London, and from realism to fantasy.