Author: Laura Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
An Angel at My Table
Author: Laura Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
An Angel At My Table
Author: Janet Frame
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349006695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
'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
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349006695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
'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
Author: Michael King
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 158243185X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 158243185X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
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
Author: John Sayles
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578060832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Collected interviews with the New Zealand director of The Piano and Portrait of a Lady
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578060832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Collected interviews with the New Zealand director of The Piano and Portrait of a Lady
An Angel at My Table
Author: Janet Frame
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9781844086238
Category : Novelists, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.'
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9781844086238
Category : Novelists, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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
Author: Janet Frame
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458784126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458784126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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
Author: Janet Frame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Envoy from Mirror City
Author: Janet Frame
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704328754
Category : Authors, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704328754
Category : Authors, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
My Friend, You've Been an Angel
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780736917957
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780736917957
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
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
Author: Marjorie Lewis Lloyd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816303632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816303632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description