Faces in the Water

Download or read book Faces in the Water written by Janet Frame and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Faces in the Water (first published in 1961), Janet Frame responded to her doctors suggestion that as I was obviously suffering from the effects of my long stay in hospital in New Zealand, I should write my story of that time to give me a clearer view of the future. This writing evolved into an intensely imagined, fictionalised account in which the protagonist, Istina Mavet, moves in and out of mental hospitals, facing the terrors of electric-shock treatment and the threat of a leucotomy."--Provided by publisher.