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An Angel at My Table

By Janet Frame

An Angel at My Table

By Janet Frame

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The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writerNew Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers and the "Mirror City" that sustains them, we are given not only a record of the events of a life, but also "the transformation of ordinary facts and ideas into a shining palace of mirrors." Frame's journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, to Paris and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writer's beginnings as well as one woman's personal struggle to survive. This book contains selections from the long out-of-print collection entitled Janet Frame: An Autobiography (George Brazillier, 1991), which itself was originally published in three volumes: To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
592
Release Date:
2016-12-13
Publication Date:
2017-01-17
Publisher:
Catapult
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1619027887
ISBN13:
9781619027886
Weight:
795 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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