cover image Daughter Buffalo

Daughter Buffalo

Janet Frame. George Braziller, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8076-1284-2

New Zealander Frame's 1972 novel Daughter Buffalo , her only work set in America, relates in an original fashion a doctor's reaction to a patient's death; The Adaptable Man , first published in 1965, contrasts an alienated young murderer with his antiquated father and uncle. (Aug.)