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Contents: Between my father and the king -- The plum tree and the hammock -- Gavin Highly -- The birds of the air -- In Alco Hall -- University entrance -- Dot -- The gravy boat -- A night at the opera -- Gorse is not people -- The wind brother -- The Friday night world -- The silkworms -- An electric blanket -- A bone in the throat -- My tailor is not rich -- The big money -- A distance from Mrs. Tiggy-winkle -- Caring for the flame -- Letter from Mrs. John Edward Harroway -- Sew my hood, cut my hair -- The atomiser -- The painter -- The people of Summer Valley -- The spider -- A night visitor -- I do not love the crickets Summary: This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in GORSE IS NOT PEOPLE. The title story caused Frame a setback in 1954, when Charles Brasch rejected it for publication in Landfall and, along with others for one reason or other, deliberately remained unpublished during her lifetime. Previously published pieces have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, the NZ Listener, the New Zealand School Journal, Landfall and The New Yorker over the years, and one otherwise unpublished piece, 'The Gravy Boat', was read aloud by Frame for a radio broadcast in 1953. In these stories readers will recognise familiar themes, scenes, characters and locations from Frame's writing and life, and each offers a fresh fictional transformation that will captivate and absorb. (Publisher) New Zealand author