To the Is-Land: An Autobiography, Volume 1
Janet Frame
ISBN 10: 1869411307 ISBN 13: 9781869411305
Published by Vintage Books, 2000
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Good condition. Volume 1. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # Y06A-02172
Synopsis:
In this first volume of her autobiography, New Zealand novelist Janet Frame tells of her childhood as the daughter of an impoverished railway worker and a mother who aspired to publish poetry.
Despite material privations and family conflicts, the world of the imagination was accorded a supreme place in the Frame household, and it was at this time that Janet Frame acquired her lifelong love for Romantic poetry and her tactile sense of the power of words.
Amongst evocations of New Zealand landscape and the recall of childhood perceptions, we learn of the tragic death by drowning of her sister Myrtle, her brother's epilepsy - and begin to feel the dark undercurrents that were to suck Janet Frame under in the years before she found herself as a writer.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: To the Is-Land: An Autobiography, Volume 1
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good