{"product_id":"an-angel-at-my-table","title":"An Angel at My Table","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrame'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book contains selections from the long out-of-print collection entitled \u003ci\u003eJanet Frame: An Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (George Brazillier, 1991), which itself was originally published in three volumes: \u003ci\u003eTo the Is-land, An Angel at My Table\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Envoy from Mirror City.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50020648878330,"sku":"9781619027886","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_d9e5e6e7-8b4b-4ea2-869a-91b7fb04f884.jpg?v=1786136992","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/an-angel-at-my-table","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}