Download or read book An Angel at My Table written by Janet Frame and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer 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. This book contains selections from the long out–of–print collection entitled Janet Frame: An Autobiography (George Brazillier, 1991), which itself was originally published in three volumes: To the Is–land, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City.
Download or read book An Angel at My Table written by Laura Jones and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Owls Do Cry written by Janet Frame and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers family, tracing Daphne's coming of age into a post–war New Zealand too narrow to know what to make of her. She is deemed mad, institutionalized, and made to undergo a risky lobotomy. Margaret Drabble calls Owls Do Cry "a song of survival"—it is Daphne's song of survival but also the author's: Frame was herself misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and scheduled for brain surgery. She was famously saved only when she won New Zealand's premier fiction prize. Frame was among the first major writers of the twentieth century to confront life in mental institutions and Owls Do Cry is important for this perspective. But it is equally valuable for its poetry, its incisive satire, and its acute social observations. A sensitively rendered portrait of childhood and adolescence and a testament to the power of imagination, this early novel is a first–rate example of Frame's powerful, lyric, and original prose.
Download or read book Wrestling with the Angel written by Michael King and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet Frame, born in 1924, is New Zealand's most celebrated and least public author. Her early life in small South Island towns seemed, at times, engulfed in a tide of doom: one brother still-born, another epileptic; two sisters dead of heart failure while swimming; Frame herself committed to mental hospitals for the best part of a decade. Later, her surviving sister was temporarily felled in adulthood by a stroke, an uncle cut his throat and a cousin shot his lover, his lover's parents and then himself. This, then, is an inspiring biography of a woman who climbed out of an abyss of unhappiness to take control of her life and become one of the great writers of her time. And to enable her biographer to write this book scrupulously and honestly, Janet Frame spoke for the first time about her whole life. She also made available her personal papers and directed her family and friends to be equally communicative. The result is a biography of astonishing intimacy and frankness, written by multi-award-winning author, Dr Michael King.
Download or read book An Angel at My Table written by Janet Frame and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to become New Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.'
Download or read book An Angel of My Own written by Beth Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzie, a young girl, is loud and rude to her family members, until an angel visits her at night and shows her how good behavior can be rewarding.
Download or read book Towards Another Summer written by Janet Frame and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Self–styled" writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. Once there, she feels more and more like a migratory bird, as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory. Grace longs to find her place in the world, but first she must learn to be comfortable in her own skin, feathers and all. From the author of the universally acclaimed An Angel at My Table comes an exquisitely written novel of exile and return, homesickness and belonging. Written in 1963 when Janet Frame was living in London, this is the first publication of a novel she considered too personal to be published while she was alive.
Download or read book May You Always Have an Angel by Your Side written by Douglas Pagels and published by Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Douglas Pagels has combined a small selection of his own meditations with the creative works of a host of well-known writers and philosophers to bring together the finest collection of angel quotes ever compiled."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book This Angel on My Chest written by Leslie Pietrzyk and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Ranging from traditional stories to lists, a quiz, a YouTube link, and even a lecture about creative writing, the stories grasp to put into words the ways in which we all cope with unspeakable loss. Based on the author's own experience of losing her husband at age thirty-seven, this book explores the resulting grief, fury, and bewilderment, mirroring the obsessive nature of grieving. The stories examine the universal issues we face at a time of loss, as well as the specific concerns of a young widow: support groups, in-laws, insurance money, dating, and remarriage. This Angel on My Chest ultimately asks, how is it possible to move forward with life while "till death do you part" rings in your ears—and, how is it possible not to?
Download or read book The Angel in My Pocket written by Sukey Forbes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing her daughter Charlotte to a rare genetic disorder, life for Sukey Forbes is completely shattered. As devastated as she is, Forbes searches for ways to deal with her grief. She wants desperately to recover a full, meaningful life on the private island of Naushon where she and her family live. Forbes begins exploring her family's rich history of spiritual seekers, including her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who similarly lost a young child.
Download or read book The Angel Book written by Karen Goldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational guide to finding angels and feeling the joy they bring, by looking at the beauty of art, music, poetry, and nature, and seeing the goodness that exists in all people.
Download or read book The Angel in the House written by Coventry Kersey D. Patmore and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seducing an Angel written by Mary Balogh and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. In a time unlike any other, a family you’ll never forget . . . Meet the Huxtables—three headstrong sisters and their dashing brother—each searching for love that’s always a shocking indiscretion away. . . . In her magnificent new novel, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us into a world of scandal and intrigue—glittering Regency England—and introduces the youngest Huxtable: Stephen, the only son. Here Stephen will risk his reputation and his heart as he enters a scandalous liaison with the infamous beauty intent on seduction. But when passion turns the tables on them both, who can say who has seduced whom? He must be wealthy, wellborn, and want her more than he wants any other woman. Those are the conditions that must be met by the man Cassandra Belmont chooses for her lover. Marriage is out of the question for the destitute widow who stands accused of murdering her husband and must now barter her beauty in order to survive. With seduction in mind, she sets her sights on Stephen Huxtable, the irresistibly attractive Earl of Merton and London’s most eligible bachelor. But Stephen’s first intriguing glimpse of the mysterious, alluring Lady Paget convinces him that he has found the ideal woman to share his bed. There is only one caveat. This relationship fueled by mutual pleasure must be on his terms. As the two warily circle each other in a sensual dance of attack and retreat, a single night of passion alters all the rules. Cassandra, whose reputation is already in tatters, is now in danger of losing the one thing she vowed never to give. And Stephen, who wants Cassandra more than he has ever wanted any woman, won’t rest until she has surrendered everything—not as his mistress—but as his lover and wife. . . .
Download or read book My Friend You ve Been an Angel written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top–selling artist Susan Winget’s popular folk art paintings, rich with color and imagination, celebrate the dearest friends who touch lives with heavenly goodness and grace. Angelic and celestial images showcase quotes to honor and illuminate what makes a friend or loved one a cherished angel—kindness, generosity, compassion, and so much more. This charming presentation will be an ideal way to say thank you and to show appreciation to those who deliver wonder, delight, and friendship on the wings of love.
Download or read book The Envoy from Mirror City written by Janet Frame and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Touched by an Angel written by Martha Williamson and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a collection of four episodes of Touched by an Angel, the fantastically popular new TV series. The scripts have been turned into short stories that capture the essence and the message of the shows.
Download or read book An Angel by My Side written by Jacky Newcomb and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of true stories of communication with those in the afterlife, this book includes real-life rescues, mysterious dream visitations, near death experiences and miraculous recoveries.
