Wrestling with the Angel

Second-Hand

Excellent condition

Janet Frame, born in 1924, is New Zealand's most celebrated and least public author.

Her early life seemed, at times, engulfed in a tide of doom: one brother still-born, another epileptic; two sisters dead of heart failure while swimming; later, her surviving sister was temporarily felled in adulthood by a stroke, an uncle cut his throat and a cousin shot his lover, his lover's parents and then himself.

This, then, is an inspiring biography of a woman who climbed out of an abyss of unhappiness to take control of her life and become one of the great writers of her time.

To enable her biographer to write this book scrupulously and honestly, Janet Frame spoke for the first time about her whole life.

She also made available her personal papers and directed her family and friends to be equally communicative.