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An Angel At My Table (Autobiography, Volumes 1,2,3)
An Angel At My Table (Autobiography, Volumes 1,2,3)
Janet Frame
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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.'
Originally published in three separate volumes:
To the Is-Land first published in 1982
An Angel at My Table first published in 1984
The Envoy from Mirror City first published in 1985
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