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To the is -land

Janet Frame

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

Random House New Zealand, 2004, c1983

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"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

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Details

  • 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
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