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An Angel at My Table - The complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics
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; Hilary Mantel (Introduction by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | 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 . . . and yet to read her is no more difficult than breathing' Hilary Mantel When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that she write about her traumatic experiences in mental instit ...Show more
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
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 (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Text Classics
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. 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 Fr ...Show more
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame; Linda Grant (Editor, Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Welcome to the comical, ironical, and multiple worlds of one Violet Pansy Proudlock (a ventriloquist), who is also known as Alice Thumb (a gossip and secret sharer of limited imaginings) and, at other times, as Mavis Furness Barnwell Halleton (a writer twice married).
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Text Classics
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories by Janet Frame; Michele S. Roberts (Introduction by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | 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
$25.00 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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