Janet Frame: 15 books

In 1951, just days before her scheduled lobotomy after years in a mental hospital, New Zealand author Janet Frame’s first collection of short stories unexpectedly won the Hubert Church Memorial Award, one of the country’s most prestigious honors. The procedure was cancelled, and Frame would go...

«Ancor più di Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame è prigioniera della sua biografia», scrive Hilary Mantel nell’introduzione a questo volume. La grande scrittrice neozelandese trascorse otto anni della sua vita in vari ospedali psichiatrici e fu sottoposta a più di duecento elettroshock, «ognuno pari...

«Una delle più grandi biografie del Novecento»: così il Times Literary Supplement ha definito questo libro. Un’opera che ha attratto nel tempo milioni di lettori e lettrici, tra le quali la regista Jane Campion che le ha dedicato uno dei suoi film più riusciti. Si potrebbero spiegare le ragioni...

Grace Cleave ha trent’anni, vive a Londra e, fatta eccezione per qualche mese di adulterio con un sedicente scrittore americano, non è mai stata sposata. I capelli, che un tempo le fiammeggiavano fulvi al sole dell’emisfero australe – Grace viene dalla Nuova Zelanda –, sono ora così sbiaditi...

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...

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...

This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Gorse is Not People. The title story caused Frame...

In ihrem vielleicht schönsten Roman erzählt Janet Frame von einer Frau, die, nachdem sie ihren Ehemann verloren hat, beschließt Schriftstellerin zu werden. Sie absolviert einen Kurs, geht auf Reisen, verliebt sich, heiratet erneut – und wird wieder Witwe. Auf Einladung von Freunden verbringt...

Amy e Bob Withers vivono in una baracca fatiscente nella piccola città neozelandese di Weimaru e, nella grave depressione economica degli anni Trenta, riescono a malapena a sfamare i loro quattro bambini. Francie, la maggiore, a dodici anni è costretta a lasciare la scuola con la prospettiva di...

Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship-a ‘living memorial’ to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial...

Janet Frames autobiographischer Roman erzählt die Lebensgeschichte einer der eigenwilligsten Autorinnen der Weltliteratur. Die junge Janet Frame wächst unter ärmlichen und tragischen Umständen an der Küste Neuseelands auf: ihr Bruder erkrankt an Epilepsie, und ihre beiden Schwestern ertrinken...

A remarkable, career-spanning collection of stories from the celebrated, award-winning New Zealand author. This “powerful collection” (Kirkus Reviews) of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame’s distinguished career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories have...

“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...

Die Familie des Eisenbahners Bob Withers in der neuseeländischen Kleinstadt Waimaru wird von Unglück und Krankheit geplagt: Eine Tochter, Francie, stirbt durch einen tragischen Unfall, eine andere, Daphne, erkrankt psychisch so schwer, dass sie in eine Heilanstalt eingewiesen werden muss, ihr Bruder...