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"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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Biography, History, New Zealand Authors, New Zealand Novelists, Women and literature, New Zealand Women authors, Authors, new zealandPeople
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Wrestling with the angel: a life of Janet Frame
2000, Viking/Penguin Books (NZ)
in English
0670893714 9780670893713
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Wrestling with the angel: a life of Janet Frame
2000, Counterpoint
in English
1582430691 9781582430690
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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