An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Counterpoint
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2016
Authors:	Janet Frame
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	583
ISBN-13:	978-1-61902-788-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	1-61902-788-7
Barcode:	9781619027886

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