TY  - BOOK
AU  - King, Michael,
TI  - Wrestling with the angel: a life of Janet Frame 
SN  - 0670893714
AV  - PR9639.3.F7 Z75 2000b
U1  - 823.2B 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Auckland, N.Z.
PB  - Viking
KW  - Frame, Janet,
KW  - Women authors, New Zealand
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - History
KW  - Authors, New Zealand
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-527) and index
N2  - 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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