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An Angel At My Table (Janet Frame Autobiography Omnibus) by Janet Frame
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
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 caree ...Show more
Faces In The Water by Janet Frame
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Faces in the Water (first published in 1961), Janet Frame responded to her doctor's suggestion that 'as I was obviously suffering from the effects of my long stay in hospital in New Zealand, I should write my story of that time to give me a clearer view of the future.' This writing evolved into an in ...Show more
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame
$19.95 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Through the eyes of a woman of myriad personalities - ventriloquist, gossip and writer - Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction: the avoidances, interruptions and irrelevancies, as well as a teasing blurring between fact and fiction. The landscape of the Maniototo becomes 'the blo ...Show more
The Lagoon & Other Stories by Janet Frame
$21.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This collection of stories - Janet Frame's first published book - appeared in New Zealand in 1951, while she was confined in a mental hospital. It won the Hubert Church Award, and a threatened brain operation was averted. These stories bring into focus a crucial turning point in her life.
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