The Complete Autobiography

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd
Publisher Place: New Zealand
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: Reprint

Description: 434 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: New Zealands preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers and the "Mirror City" that sustains them, we are given not only a record of the events of a life, but also "the transformation of ordinary facts an ideas into a shining palace of mirrors."Frames journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, Paris, and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writers beginnings as well as one womans personal struggle to survive.

ISBN: 9780704350724