An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography - Softcover

Frame, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1619027887 ISBN 13: 9781619027886

Verlag: Counterpoint, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer

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.

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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Janet Frame (1924 - 2004) was one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers. She is best known for An Angel at My Table, which the Sunday Times of London called "one of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century," and inspired Jane Campion's internationally acclaimed film. Throughout her long career, Frame received a wide range of awards, including every literary prize for which she was eligible in New Zealand, honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Literature.

Janet Frame, ONZ CBE is New Zealand's most decorated author. Over the course of her fifty-year career, she won New Zealand's Hubert Church Prose Award four times, the New Zealand Book Awards multiple times for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, the New Zealand Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement, and dozens of others. An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has published more than twenty-five books.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Counterpoint
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1619027887
• ISBN 13: 9781619027886
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 592
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