An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

Frame, Janet

ISBN 10: 1619027887 / ISBN 13: 9781619027886

Published by Counterpoint, 2017

About this Item

Oversized trade paperback, published by Counterpoint, 2017. Includes the three volumes; To The Is-land, An Angel At My Table, and The Envoy From Mirror City. 582 pages, 6" X 9". No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean. No creases to the cover, there are a couple of slight creases to the spine - see photos. Binding is tight and square. Not a remainder copy, not a library discard copy. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory.

Seller Inventory # 24-04215

Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1619027887
• ISBN 13: 9781619027886
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoir
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer

New Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers and the "Mirror City" that sustains them, we are given not only a record of the events of a life, but also "the transformation of ordinary facts and ideas into a shining palace of mirrors."

Frame's journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, to Paris and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writer's beginnings as well as one woman's personal struggle to survive.

This book contains selections from the long out-of-print collection entitled Janet Frame: An Autobiography (George Brazillier, 1991), which itself was originally published in three volumes: To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City.

About the Author

Janet Frame (1924 - 2004) was one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers. She is best known for An Angel at My Table, which the Sunday Times of London called "one of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century," and inspired Jane Campion's internationally acclaimed film. Throughout her long career, Frame received a wide range of awards, including every literary prize for which she was eligible in New Zealand, honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Literature.