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An Angel At My Table: The Complete Autobiography de Janet Frame

An Angel At My Table: The Complete Autobiography: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Janet Frame Introducere de Jane Campion
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2024
'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

'All my preoccupations as a writer - my notions of home, beauty, madness of sorts and longing - come from her' MEG MASON
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349018546
ISBN-10: 0349018545
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 134 x 216 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seria Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century . . . A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing . . . a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power
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
Irresistibly readable, commendably honest, and, as a lesson in how courage and the will to survive defeated the effects of a ghastly mistake, inspiring
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
The Janet Frame of An Angel at My Table is a writer of exceptional sensitivity
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
'One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century . . . It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power' Michael Holroyd, Sunday Times


Gathered here are all three volumes of Janet Frame's vivid and haunting autobiography, with a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion, in a new edition to celebrate the centenary of Frame's birth.


Illuminated with her skill and lyricism as a novelist and poet, An Angel at my Table records not only the extraordinary facts of Janet Frame's life, but her flourishing as a writer. Born into a poor but intellectually intense family, she was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman and incarcerated for several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize - and went on to become New Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.'


'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


'Frame's haunting and powerful trilogy is one of the greatest of autobiographies' Hilary Mantel

Notă biografică

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.