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Janet Frame - An Autobiography. To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table, The Envoy from Mirror City by Janet Frame
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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vivid and haunting recollections, gathere here for the first time in a single edition and complemented by previously unpublished photographs.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: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
9.99 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
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
Nine New Zealand Novellas by Witi Ihimaera; Janet Frame; Ian Wedde; Keri Hulme; Chad Taylor
39.99 NZD
41.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
This anthology features nine top authors in a fascinating anthology that groups the best examples of the novella, a form in which many New Zealand fiction writers have excelled. The collection includes:Janet Frame: Snowman, SnowmanMaurice Shadbolt: Figures in LightRonald Hugh Morrieson: Pallet on the Fl ...Show more
Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
26.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her ideas behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: "Pictures of great treasures in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for the ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
15.99 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
Scented Gardens for the Blind and the Adaptable Man by Janet Frame
9.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Hailed by one reviewer as 'likely a work of genius', Scented Gardens For The Blind (first published in 1963) ostensibly follows the members of the fractured Glace family, suffering from different forms of sensory deprivation - the daughter mute, the mother blind, the father estranged - yet each living i ...Show more
The Carpathians by Janet Frame
19.95 NZD
24.95 (20% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Goose Bath by Janet Frame
9.99 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
The Goose Bath Poems by Janet Frame
9.99 NZD
39.99 (75% off)
Category: Poetry | 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