An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame

An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame

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The second part of Janet Frames' three-volume autobiography, this text follows her life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals.

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An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame

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-fiction Prize of the New Zealand Book Awards. ABOUT THE AUTHOR anet Frame was born in Dunedin in 1924. She was the author of eleven novels, five collections of stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. She was a Burns Scholar and a Sargeson Fellow and won the New Zealand Scholarship in Letters and the Hubert Church Award for Prose. She was made a CBE in 1983 for services to literature, awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Otago University in 1978, and one from Waikato University in 1992. She received New Zealand's highest civil honour in 1990 when she was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand. Janet Frame died in January 2004.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR anet Frame was born in Dunedin in 1924. She was the author of eleven novels, five collections of stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. She was a Burns Scholar and a Sargeson Fellow and won the New Zealand Scholarship in Letters and the Hubert Church Award for Prose. She was made a CBE in 1983 for services to literature, awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Otago University in 1978, and one from Waikato University in 1992. She received New Zealand's highest civil honour in 1990 when she was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand. Janet Frame died in January 2004.
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ISBN 13 9781869411329
ISBN 10 1869411323
Title An Angel At My Table
Author Janet Frame
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House New Zealand Ltd
Year published 2000-07-01
Number of pages 144
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