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A State of Siege & The Rainbirds by Janet Frame
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: The Janet Frame Collection | Reading Level: very good
"She is a giant among prose writers in English. It is impossible to call yourself well-read if you have not yet discovered Janet Frame"- Stephanie Dowrick, Sydney Morning HeraldHere at last is the opportunity for New Zealand readers to discover two of Janet Frame's most cinematic novels, highly readable ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - An Autobiography Volume Two by Janet Frame
30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
An Angel at my Table is the second book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century'. It follows her life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals. First published in 1984, it won the Non-fictio ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 & The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
An omnibus of two early novelsIn 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 my future'. Th ...Show more
Gorse is Not People - New and Uncollected Stories by Janet Frame
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Gorse is Not People. The title story caused Frame a ...Show more
In the Memorial Room by Janet Frame
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room i ...Show more
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
Janet Frame - An Autobiography. To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table, The Envoy from Mirror City by Janet Frame
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathere here for the first time in a single edition and complemented by previously unpublished photographs.
Janet Frame In Her Own Words by Janet Frame
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
'It is the desire really to make myself a first person. For many years I was a third person - as children are, 'they', 'she', and as probably oppressed minorities become, 'they'. - Janet Frame, radio interview about writing her autobiography (1983). For the first time ever, this collection brings togeth ...Show more
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
“Quirky, rich, eccentric” was Margaret Atwood’s response in the New York Times when this dazzling, award-winning novel appeared in 1979. Through the eyes of a woman of myriad personalities — ventriloquist, gossip and writer — Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction: the avoidances, ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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 Goose Bath by Janet Frame
31.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The Janet Frame Collection | Reading Level: very good
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was ...Show more