Frame, Janet

Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame ( Book )
38 editions published between 1979 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 966 libraries worldwide
The main character, Mavis, decides to become a writer after the death of her second husband. The reader is "privy to the attendant avoidances, interruptions, and irrelevancies that are part of her attempt to complete a novel."--Jacket.

Faces in the water by Janet Frame ( Book )
53 editions published between 1196 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 965 libraries worldwide
"In Faces in the Water (first published in 1961), Janet Frame responded to her doctors suggestion that as I was obviously suffering from the effects of my long stay in hospital in New Zealand, I should write my story of that time to give me a clearer view of the future. This writing evolved into an intensely imagined, fictionalised account in which the protagonist, Istina Mavet, moves in and out of mental hospitals, facing the terrors of electric-shock treatment and the threat of a leucotomy."--Provided by publisher.

Towards another summer by Janet Frame ( Book )
27 editions published between 2007 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 896 libraries worldwide
"Writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. Once there, she feels more and more like a migratory bird, as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory. Grace longs to find her place in the world, but first she must be comfortable in her own skin, feathers and all."--BOOK JACKET.

Owls do cry by Janet Frame ( Book )
77 editions published between 1957 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 893 libraries worldwide
This is a novel which explores the growing up of four children of an educated but impoverished family in New Zealand. The children find their treasure and glory at the rubbish dump, amidst the refuse that the people of the town have thrown away.

To the is-land : an autobiography by Janet Frame ( Book )
93 editions published between 1982 and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 870 libraries worldwide
An account of a childhood and adolescence in a New Zealand railway family in the 1920s and 30s. Her life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals are eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers.

The Carpathians by Janet Frame ( Book )
21 editions published between 1988 and 2005 in English and Slovenian and held by 825 libraries worldwide
Roman fra New Zealand om maorier og deres skikke.

Daughter buffalo; a novel by Janet Frame ( Book )
32 editions published between 1972 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 743 libraries worldwide
Talbot Edelman, issu d'une famille américaine respectable, est obsédé à l'idée de trouver l'essence même de la mort. Sa vie prend un autre tour lorsqu'il rencontre, à New York, un poète, Turnlung, avec qui il noue des liens d'amour profond, ambigu et charnel comme les deux faces Eros et Thanatos.

Intensive care; a novel by Janet Frame ( Book )
18 editions published between 1970 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 662 libraries worldwide
A tale of two worlds. Of the past we know and understand, and the prophecy of a future civilization that eliminates the sub-standard and abnormal human.

The pocket mirror : poems by Janet Frame ( Book )
17 editions published between 1967 and 1992 in English and held by 661 libraries worldwide

An angel at my table : an autobiography by Janet Frame ( Book )
75 editions published between 1982 and 2010 in 11 languages and held by 655 libraries worldwide
The autobiography of one of New Zealand's best loved writers, with an new introduction by Jane Campion.