An Angel at My Table: The Complete AutobiographyThe 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. |
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Tales of gypsy camps, or Arabs folding their tents, of Babes in the Wood, could
scarcely defeat the bitter cold. It seemed to be always snowing, with the snow
lying deep around the huts and in the central courtyard. I think I knew
unhappiness ...
Tales of gypsy camps, or Arabs folding their tents, of Babes in the Wood, could
scarcely defeat the bitter cold. It seemed to be always snowing, with the snow
lying deep around the huts and in the central courtyard. I think I knew
unhappiness ...
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| Title | An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography |
| Author | Janet Frame |
| Publisher | Counterpoint Press, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1619028875, 9781619028876 |
| Length | 600 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Biography & Autobiography / Women Medical / Mental Health Travel / Europe / Western |
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