Janet Frame Boeken

De Nieuw-Zeelandse schrijfster Grace Cleave voelt zich nergens echt thuis en verkeert in een isolement. Wanneer ze een weekend doorbrengt bij een recensent en zijn gezin wordt ze des te meer geconfronteerd met haar onvermogen tot communicatie en haar gevoel nergens helemaal bij te horen. Haar gedachten gaan terug naar haar jeugd in Nieuw-Zeeland: scherp en geestig observerend concludeert ze dat alleen het schrijverschap haar de toevlucht kan bieden die ze nodig heeft.

Autobiografisch relaas van het leven in een traditionele psychiatrische inrichting in de jaren '40 en '50.

In Naar het Is-Land, het eerste deel van de trilogie, zien we Janet Frame opgroeien in de jaren dertig. Ondanks de bittere armoede en de schokkende gebeurtenissen in de familie ontwikkelt ze haar grote literaire talent en ziet ze kans een universitaire studie te beginnen.

Librarian note: Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0586085866 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 schizophrenic, Janet spent eight harrowing years in psychiatric hospitals until the publication of her prize-winning collection of stories won her a discharge.

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 in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers and the "Mirror City" that sustains them, we are given not only a record of the events of a life, but also "the transformation of ordinary facts and ideas into a shining palace of mirrors." Frame's journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, to Paris and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writer's beginnings as well as one woman's personal struggle to survive.

New Zealand's preeminent writer brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections.

This is the cautionary tale of Toby Withers and Zoe Bryce, companions at the edge of the alphabet--that strange, incommunicable region of the mind walled by silence, noisy with dreams. Toby and Zoe meet on the ship to England. Irishman Pat Keenan, a London bus driver, passionately ordinary, forms the apex of the triangle.

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.'

When a man who is believed dead revives in the mortuary and returns home, he is forced to re-examine his relationships with his family and others.