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An Angel at my Table (Janet Frame Autobiography #2)
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Janet Frame
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This is the second volume in Janet Frame's autobiography, in which she tells of how she left the close-knit family home in Oamaru for teacher training college in Dunedin.
Her college years were a time of intense loneliness that culminated in an attempted suicide and commital to a mental institution.
Labelled as a ...more
This is the second volume in Janet Frame's autobiography, in which she tells of how she left the close-knit family home in Oamaru for teacher training college in Dunedin.
Her college years were a time of intense loneliness that culminated in an attempted suicide and commital to a mental institution.
Labelled as a ...more
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Not a great review here, but I have a headache.
Finished Vol. 2 of Frame's Autobiography; read To the Is-Land in January. Vol. 2 expands on the the things I found most interesting in Vol. 1. I liked her rebuttal to the prevailing impression that she was mentally ill: that what she suffered from was a paralyzing personal shyness, shame, and fear about how to fit into the sectors of society (university, literary New Zealand) that could facilitate her writing life, and that this paralysis developed ...more
Finished Vol. 2 of Frame's Autobiography; read To the Is-Land in January. Vol. 2 expands on the the things I found most interesting in Vol. 1. I liked her rebuttal to the prevailing impression that she was mentally ill: that what she suffered from was a paralyzing personal shyness, shame, and fear about how to fit into the sectors of society (university, literary New Zealand) that could facilitate her writing life, and that this paralysis developed ...more
Apr 20, 2014
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This part of Janet Frame's autobiography covers the years of early adulthood until she turns 31 and is beginning to find her way in the world. The over-riding image that the reader gets is of the painfully shy woman who attempts to put on a persona, and the tragic results of that which caused her to be incarcerated in a mental institution for 8 years.
I listened to an Audio recording of this, and didn't like the narration. This is a shame.
I listened to an Audio recording of this, and didn't like the narration. This is a shame.
Colchester library book sale summer 2015
This book meant such a lot to me, especially since the fact that she was committed suicide and was sent to a mental hospital due to the fact that she was too shy and reluctant to talk to people. Which really made me quite worried.
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The fate befalling the young woman who wanted "to be a poet" has been well documented. Desperately unhappy because of family tragedies and finding herself trapped in the wrong vocation (as a schoolteacher) her only escape appeared to be in submission to society's judgement of her as abnormal. She spent four and a half years out of eight years, incarcerated in mental hospitals. The story of her alm
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