KING, Michael

WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL. A Life of Janet Frame

Picador, Sydney, 2000. First Australian Edition 8vo.pp.583. Illustrated. Very good hardcover in Very Good dust jacket. Biography of Janet Frame new Zealands most sucessful and least public author.A biography of astonishing intimacy and frankness Frame allowed the biographer into her whole life,made available personal papers and directed her family and friends to be equally cooperative. Janet Frame spent ten years in mental institutions and surrounded by a family she described as " The dying spending their time before death" this is a chilling exposure. Item #17934

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