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An Angel At My Table

By Janet , Frame

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia;Counterpoint
ISBN
9781742759098, 9781741666052, 9781619028876, 1619028875
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
914 kB (935746 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
AuthorsJanet;AuthorsNew Zealand -- 20th century -- BiographyNew Zealand -- 20th century -- Biography;Women autNew Zealand--20th century;Biographies;FrameNew Zealand--20th century;Women authorsNew Zealand;AuthorsNew Zealand;Women authors

Description

New 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.

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