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Janet Frame achieved fame through her poignant and beautifully written autobiographical series, An Angel at my Table. New Zealand's most celebrated yet most reclusive author, her early life makes harrowing reading: a series of family tragedies culminated in her being committed to mental hospitals for almost a decade. She finally escaped from this abyss of despair, regaining control of her life and becoming one of the great writers of her time. With unprecedented access to Frame's personal papers and to the woman herself, Michael King has fashioned a vivid and sympathetic biography of an extraordinary character. `Elegantly written . . . In King's account, our extended tea party with Frame draws her out as something of an authorial Our Man in Havana, abducted into a plot so wild and extraordinary it constantly resembles fiction' Observer `This is an admirable work of scholarship . . . Frame's gift of writerly insight is presented as both joyful and difficult, nurtured in the privacy to which she clung throughout the course of what makes for an absorbing life-story' Spectator
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A beautifully written biography about the talented, reclusive Janet Frame; Janet Frame, born in 1924, came to international attention through her poignant and beautifully written autobiographical series, An Angel at my Table. New Zealand's most celebrated yet most reclusive author, her early life makes tragic reading: one brother still-born, another epileptic; two sisters dead of heart failure; Frame herself committed to mental hospitals for the best part of a decade. All this and more propelled Frame into a state of intense depression and suffering. King's inspiring biography tells the story of a woman who climbed out of an abyss of overwhelming unhappiness to take control of her life and become one of the great writers of her time. With unprecendented access to Frame's personal papers and to the woman herself, Michael King has fashioned a biography of astonishing intimacy and frankness. That Frame has previously been known above all else for her reticence makes this achievement all the more remarkable.
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Michael King was born December 15, 1945. He was a widely respected New Zealand historian, author and biographer. He wrote biographies of Te Puea Herangi, Whina Cooper, Frank Sargeson (1995) and Janet Frame (2000). More general works are Being Pakeha (1985), and Moriori (1989), In all, he wrote, co-wrote and edited more than forty books. He died in March 2004.
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- Publication date2002
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- ISBN 13 9780330352772
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