![]() ![]() ![]() And whereas King's book is scholarly with extensive endnotes and Index, Frame's is emotional and poetic, occasionally impressionistic, without any textual apparatus. The autobiography covers much of the ground that Michael King covered in Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame (2000), although Frame's trilogy ends 1964–65, whereas King's book ends in 1999, five years before her death. ![]() The first book describes Frame's childhood in Oamaru, South Island the second book covers the beginning of her aborted college days in Dunedin, through the years of her incarceration in mental hospitals, to a kind of rebirth with mentor Frank Sargeson in Takapuna, Auckland and the third describes Frame's days in Europe, through her discovery that she never suffered from schizophrenia to her return to New Zealand after seven years abroad. An Angel at My Table, the autobiography of New Zealand writer Janet Frame (1924–2004), consists of three books: To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1985). ![]()
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