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An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
With a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion. Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections. Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor ...Show more
An Angel At My Table (Janet Frame Autobiography Omnibus) by Janet Frame
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals (essentially for wanting to pursue a caree ...Show more
Faces In The Water by Janet Frame
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Faces in the Water (first published in 1961), Janet Frame responded to her doctor's suggestion that 'as I was obviously suffering from the effects of my long stay in hospital in New Zealand, I should write my story of that time to give me a clearer view of the future.' This writing evolved into an in ...Show more
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
12.95 AUD
Category: 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
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
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 by Janet Frame
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Written over four decades and including all of her best stories, this new selection illustrates Janet Frame's dazzling versatility. Her themes range from childhood, to old age, death and beyond. Some stories are firmly rooted in realism and others in glorious fantasy. In Frame's stories life is mysterio ...Show more
The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand's foremost writers,The Edge of the Alphabetis a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, publishedon the centenary of her birth. Toby Withers, a young man with epil ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Suffused with beauty and tenderness and shot through with self-deprecating humour and frailty. Grace is taking a break from writing a long novel and seems to be losing her grip on daily life in London. She feels more and more like a migratory bird as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life in Engl ...Show more
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