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Wrestling with the angel : a life of Janet Frame / Michael King.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Viking, 2000.Description: 583 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0670893714
  • 9780670893713
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.2 B 21
  • 920 FRA
LOC classification:
  • PR9639.3.F7 Z75 2000b
Awards:
  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards Montana Medal for Non-Fiction, 2001
  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards Readers' Choice Award, 2001
  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards History and Biography, 2001
Summary: 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.
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Non-Fiction - New Zealand Non-Fiction - New Zealand Waimate Non-Fiction Non Fiction 920 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00271832

Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-527) and index.

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.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Montana Medal for Non-Fiction, 2001

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Readers' Choice Award, 2001

Montana New Zealand Book Awards History and Biography, 2001

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