Research Catalog

Title

An angel at my table : the complete autobiography / Janet Frame.

Author

Frame, Janet

Publication

• Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2017]
• ©2017

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Holdings

Details

Description

583 pages; 23 cm

Summary

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: LITERARY. 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.

Subject

• Frame, Janet
• 1900-1999
• Authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Biography
• Women authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• "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 Island, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City."--Back cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

To the is-land -- An angel at my table -- The envoy from mirror city.

ISBN

• 9781619027886
• 1619027887

OCLC

• 971890807
• SCSB-12643486

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library