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 and ideas into a shining palace of mirrors."Frame's journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, to 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: Janet Frame: The Complete Autobiography
titlecomplete: Janet Frame: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
genres: Autobiography, Mental Health, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Biography, 20th Century, Memoir, Nonfiction, Mental Illness, Womens
ratings_count: 2080
series: Janet Frame Autobiography
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
category: (NZ Book Awards) & 3rd (Goodman Fielder Wattie)
publisher: The Women's Press Ltd