An Angel At My Table
$29.08
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2018
Summary
With a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion. Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections.
Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame’s autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals (essentially for wanting to pursue a career as a poet), followed eve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143791065 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143791060 |
| Author: | Janet Frame |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 35mm |
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About The Author
Janet Frame
Janet Frame was born in Dunedin in 1924. She was the author of eleven novels, five collections of stories, a volume of poetry and a children’s book. She was a Burns Scholar and a Sargeson Fellow and won the New Zealand Scholarship in Letters and the Hubert Church Award for Prose. She was made a CBE in 1983 for services to literature, awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Otago University in 1978, and one from Waikato University in 1992. She received New Zealand’s highest civil honour in 1990 when she was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand. Janet Frame died in January 2004.
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