![]() ![]() This book contains selections from the long out-of-print collection entitled Janet Frame: An Autobiography (George Brazillier, 1991), which itself was originally published in three volumes: To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers and the "Mirror City" that sustains them, we are given not only a record of the events of a life, but also "the transformation of ordinary facts and ideas into a shining palace of mirrors."įrame's journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, to Paris and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writer's beginnings as well as one woman's personal struggle to survive. ![]() The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writerNew Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. ![]()
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Do you know of anyone here from her past who would be messing with her?” “Good, but I really need to know who’s after her. “How is she?” he asks, closing his eyes, but not before I catch the look of pain in them. “How long have you been in the picture?” He cocks his head to the side. “I had someone keeping an eye out for her, and then one day she was just gone.” “Someone has tried to hurt her twice since she moved to Tennessee.” ![]() I shake my head, still in shock from what he just said. “I know I f**ked up with her, but I never wanted her to be afraid again,” he says softly. “Holy shit.” I sit back in the chair, my body sagging. I know I should have prevented it from happening in the first place, but I didn’t, so I made it to where it would never happen again.” I do not regret for one second taking that fucker’s life. ![]() I tracked the guy down that hurt her and killed him. 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(She also has a short story of her own, titled “If It Bleeds.”) She’s always an uncomfortable figure to the normies in King’s universe, and she interprets the nature of whatever Kingsian monster is hunting them down. Holly (Cynthia Erivo) appears in several Stephen King novels, including 2018’s The Outsider, Mr. “Well then, sir,” Holly Gibney replies, looking ominously at the detectives through her eyelashes, “you’ll have no tolerance for me.” In an early scene in HBO’s underrated horror series The Outsider, the would-be hero cop Ralph Anderson announces that he has no tolerance for the unexplainable. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the point of the whole book is to focus on the contrasts in Bill McKibben’s own life that led him to transition from a quiet guy author to the leader of a worldwide activism campaign. The voice he uses is definitely his own, and his sincere tone and self criticism will seem quite contradictory with his often controversial,muckraking persona. 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