SOURCE: A review of Intensive Care, in America, Vol. 122, No. 20, May 23, 1970, pp. 565-66.

Corbett is an American educator, writer, and critic. In the review below, he approaches Frame's fiction ambivalently, stating that Intensive Care is "like no other novel I have ever read."

[Intensive Care] is a difficult book to describe or evaluate. It is like no other novel I have ever read; and having read this one, I am still uncertain whether I will ever be disposed to read any of Janet Frame's previously published seven novels.

Yet the quotes on the dust jacket are unstinting in their praise of the earlier novels—John Barkham on the first novel, Owls Do Cry: "The most talented novelist to have come out of New Zealand since Katherine Mansfield"; Stanley Hyman on her Scented Gardens for the Blind: "This amazing book is the most remarkable I have read in a...