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The silicon tongue / Beryl Fletcher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fletcher, Beryl, 1938-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Zealand--Fiction.
- New Zealand.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- North Melbourne, Vic. : Spinifex, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Silicon Tongue follows the award-winning novel, The Word Burners and critically acclaimed novel, The Iron Mouth. These novels explore the relationship between language and identity and tell stories of women's lives in a time of radical social change. The Silicon Tongue is centred on the life and times of London-born Alice who was brought to New Zealand as a servant in the 1930s. Tricked by the authorities into believing she was an orphan, Alice tells her story into the tape recorder of a mysterious oral historian and discloses family secrets of rape and adoption. She discovers a
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Copyright; Title; Dedication; 1 Alice; 2 Joy; 3 Alice; 4 Joy; 5 Alice; 6 Isobel; 7 Joy; 8 Alice; 9 Joy; 10 Isobel; 11 Joy; 12 Alice; 13 Joy; 14 Alice; Acknowledgements
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-74219-464-8
- 1-74219-176-2
- OCLC:
- 476232971
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