Owls Do Cry, Janet Frame, 1960, New Zealand, NOVEL
"...Janet's first novel, Owls Do Cry, draws on many details of her own life...At twenty-one, she was institutionalized in a mental hospital and later saved from a threatened lobotomy only by her achievement as a writer..."
"...Janet's first novel, Owls Do Cry, draws on many details of her own life...At twenty-one, she was institutionalized in a mental hospital and later saved from a threatened lobotomy only by her achievement as a writer..."
(P.H., p. 84)