An Autobiography - Janet Frame (Vintage Collectors Edition #169/500)

This is a second-hand copy of the book An Autobiography by Janet Frame. This is the 1994 Vintage Collectors Edition number 169 of 500 copies.

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition. The dust jacket has now been covered in a non-adhesive PVC cover for its own protection. This is simply folded in place and is easy to remove without damaging the jacket.

Publisher: Random House
Year: 1994 (This Vintage Collectors Edition)
ISBN: 9781869412326
Format: Hardback with Dustjacket
Pages: 437
Condition: Used (Very Good)

Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand New Zealand's highest civil honour.

Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and psychiatric hospitalisation from a fictional perspective, and her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film An Angel at My Table (1990), directed by Jane Campion.