num_pages: 434
description: New Zealand's 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."Frame's journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, Paris, and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writer's beginnings as well as one woman's personal struggle to survive.
language: English
title: The Complete Autobiography
titlecomplete: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
genres: 20th Century, Psychology, Womens, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2081
series: Janet Frame Autobiography
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
category: (NZ Book Awards) & 3rd (Goodman Fielder Wattie)
publisher: Womens Pr Ltd