To the is -land

Author(s)

• Frame, Janet

Bibliographic Information

To the is -land

Janet Frame

（A Vintage book, . Janet Frame's an autobiography ; v. 1）

Random House New Zealand, 2004, c1983

Note

"First Vintage books edition, 2000"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

TO THE IS-LAND is the first book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century.' It chronicles her childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family in the 1920s and 30s. First published in 1983, it won the prestigious Wattie Book of the Year Award.

Table of Contents

• In the second place
• toward the is-land
• in velvet gown
• the railway people
• Ferry Street, Wyndham
• hark, hark, the dogs do bark
• fifty-six Eden Street, Oamuru
• death and a sickness
• poppy
• O.K. permanent wave
• the prince of sleep
• cures
• the birds of the air
• pastimes
• Gussy and the Invercargill March
• the Anthenaeum
• clothed in white samite
• picnics
• a death
• once paumanok
• the hungry generations
• the kingdom by the sea
• scrapers and bluey
• Faust and the piano
• marking time
• early spring snow
• "That's not you, Jasper"
• university entrance
• imagination
• a country full of rivers
• leaving the is-land, greeting the is-land

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB07121310
• ISBN:
  • 1869411307
• Country Code: nz
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Auckland
• Pages/Volumes: 191 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00909495