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An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ... A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power' Micha ...Show more
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Written with unsparing precision and astounding immediacy, Faces in the Water takes the reader behind the walls of two hospitals--Cliffhaven and Treecroft--and into the hearts and minds of its confused and tormented patients. The experience of insanity and "the utter, the naked precariousness of existen ...Show more
In the Memorial Room by Janet Frame
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship-a 'living memorial' to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room i ...Show more
The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories by Janet Frame; Michele S. Roberts (Introduction by)
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The Daylight and the Dust' is a comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's short stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection 'The Lagoon and Other Stories', right up to 'You Are Now Entering the Human Heart'.
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Self-styled writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. ...Show more
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