To the Is-land
An Autobiography (Autobiography, #1)
Ranked #38 in New Zealand
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... more
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... more
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