An edition of Wrestling with the angel (2000)

Wrestling with the angel

a life of Janet Frame

Wrestling with the angel
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An edition of Wrestling with the angel (2000)

Wrestling with the angel

a life of Janet Frame

"Janet Frame, born in 1924, is New Zealand's most celebrated and least public author. Her early life in small South Island towns seemed, at times, engulfed in a tide of doom: one brother stillborn, another epileptic; two sisters dead of heart failure while swimming; Frame herself committed to mental hospitals for the best part of a decade.

Later her surviving sister was temporarily felled in adulthood by a stroke, an uncle cut his throat and a cousin shot his lover, his lover's parents and then himself." "All this propelled Frame into a territory resembling that 'where the dying spend their time before death'. Those who return alive from such a place, she would say, bring a point of view 'equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighborhood of the gods and goddesses'.".

"This is a biography of a woman who climbed out of an abyss of unhappiness to take control of her life and become one of the great writers of her time. And to enable her biographer to write this book scrupulously and honestly, Janet Frame spoke for the first time about her whole life. She also made available her personal papers and directed her family and friends to be equally communicative."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Picador
Language
English
Pages
583

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Wrestling with the angel: a life of Janet Frame
2001, Picador
in English
Cover of: Wrestling with the angel
Wrestling with the angel: a life of Janet Frame
2000, Viking/Penguin Books (NZ)
in English
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Wrestling with the angel: a life of Janet Frame
2000, Counterpoint
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Edition Notes

Originally published: Auckland: Penguin, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London
Genre
Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
823

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Pagination
583p.,[24]p. of plates :
Number of pages
583

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OL19121426M
ISBN 10
0330352768
Library Thing
7813670
Goodreads
2491996

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