Wrestling with the Angel by Michael King
Janet Frame is New Zealand's most celebrated author who has published more than twenty books and has been shortlisted for the Nobel Prize. Her three-volume memoir, was the subject of the award-winning film An Angel at My Table. Working from previously un-released documents including Janet Frame's diaries, health records, and court transcripts, Michael King reveals the formative episodes of her life - the poverty of her childhood, the deaths of two sisters by drowning, her incarceration in psychiatric hospitals for the better part of a decade, and her continuing struggle against diagnoses of mental illness.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780670893713 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670893714 |
| Title | Wrestling with the Angel |
| Author | Michael King |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 584 |
| Prizes | Winner of Book Data New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award 2001, Winner of Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Montana Medal for Non-Fiction 2001, Winner of Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Readers' Choice Award 2001 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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