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The Typewriter's Tale Michiel Heyns ISBN 9781868422296 Publication date 2005 EBOOK VERSION ALSO AVAILABLE. Combining fact with fiction, Heyns recreates the society around the celebrated author Henry James, as seen through the cool gaze of his typist, Frieda Wroth. Admiring of the great author, she nevertheless feels marginalised and under-valued, a mere typewriter. But when the dashing Morton Fullerton comes to visit, she finds herself at the centre of an intrigue every bit as engrossing as the novels she types every day, bringing her into conflict with the flamboyant Edith Wharton, and compromising her loyalty to her employer. Frieda tries to obey James' dictum: 'Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.' But living, she finds, exacts a price: it takes place at the expense of other lives. |
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Extras Reviews, News & Interviews: ... a hugely refreshing South African novel … Heyns has a knack for building clear, expressive prose like a watchmaker fitting together the workings of a timepiece. Gareth Pike, Sunday Times Heyns’s first novel, The Children’s Day, was impressive for its poignant lyricism; by dramatic contrast, his second novel, The Reluctant Passenger, was an acerbic romp. In The Typewriter’s Tale he has fashioned an elegant combination of these apparently divergent styles. Karen Scherzinger, The Sunday Independent |
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