An Angel at My Table

An Angel at My Table PDF Author: Laura Jones
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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An Angel at My Table

An Angel at My Table PDF Author: Laura Jones
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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An Angel At My Table

An Angel At My Table PDF Author: Janet Frame
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349006695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517

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'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL 'Janet Frame is the greatest New Zealand writer. She is utterly herself. Any one of her books could be published today and it would be ground-breaking' ELEANOR CATTON After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to become New Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.' This edition contains all three volumes of Frame's autobiography: To the Is-Land, An Angel at My Table and An Envoy from Mirror City. 'One of the most beautiful and moving books I have ever read . . . A masterpiece . . . Janet's autobiography had an enormous effect on me. She struck a blow right to my heart' JANE CAMPION, GUARDIAN 'One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century' MICHAEL HOLROYD, SUNDAY TIMES

Wrestling with the Angel

Wrestling with the Angel PDF Author: Michael King
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 158243185X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613

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Janet Frame, born in 1924, is New Zealand's most celebrated and least public author. Her early life in small South Island towns seemed, at times, engulfed in a tide of doom: one brother still-born, another epileptic; two sisters dead of heart failure while swimming; Frame herself committed to mental hospitals for the best part of a decade. Later, her surviving sister was temporarily felled in adulthood by a stroke, an uncle cut his throat and a cousin shot his lover, his lover's parents and then himself. This, then, is an inspiring biography of a woman who climbed out of an abyss of unhappiness to take control of her life and become one of the great writers of her time. And to enable her biographer to write this book scrupulously and honestly, Janet Frame spoke for the first time about her whole life. She also made available her personal papers and directed her family and friends to be equally communicative. The result is a biography of astonishing intimacy and frankness, written by multi-award-winning author, Dr Michael King.

Jane Campion

Jane Campion PDF Author: John Sayles
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578060832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Collected interviews with the New Zealand director of The Piano and Portrait of a Lady

An Angel at My Table

An Angel at My Table PDF Author: Janet Frame
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9781844086238
Category : Novelists, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to become New Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.'

Towards Another Summer

Towards Another Summer PDF Author: Janet Frame
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458784126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Self-styled writer Grace Cleave has writers block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be ''among people, even for five or ten minutes.'' And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. Once there, she feels more and more like a migratory bird, as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory. Grace longs to find her place in the world, but first she must learn to be comfortable in her own skin, feathers and all. From the author of An Angel at My Table comes an exquisitely written novel of exile and return, homesickness and belonging. Written in 1963 when Janet Frame was living in London, this is of a novel she considered too personal to be published while she was alive.

To the Is-Land

To the Is-Land PDF Author: Janet Frame
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Envoy from Mirror City

The Envoy from Mirror City PDF Author: Janet Frame
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ISBN: 9780704328754
Category : Authors, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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My Friend, You've Been an Angel

My Friend, You've Been an Angel PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9780736917957
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Top–selling artist Susan Winget’s popular folk art paintings, rich with color and imagination, celebrate the dearest friends who touch lives with heavenly goodness and grace. Angelic and celestial images showcase quotes to honor and illuminate what makes a friend or loved one a cherished angel—kindness, generosity, compassion, and so much more. This charming presentation will be an ideal way to say thank you and to show appreciation to those who deliver wonder, delight, and friendship on the wings of love.

It Must Have Been an Angel

It Must Have Been an Angel PDF Author: Marjorie Lewis Lloyd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816303632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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