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The Goose Bath

Poems

The Goose Bath( )
Author: Frame, Janet
Editor: Gordon, Pamela
Harold, Denis
Manhire, Bill
Foreword by: Gordon, Pamela
Introduction by: Manhire, Bill
ISBN:978-0-9804165-4-1
Publication Date:Sep 2008
Publisher:Wilkins Farago Pty, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $32.95
Book Description:

This is the last great masterwork by a writer nominated three times for the Nobel Prize for Literature. A selection of over 100 poems that illustrate the shape of her life: her childhood and the subsequent difficult years in mental hospitals; her travels around the world; her life as a writer, growing older and facing illness and death.

Book Details
Pages:238
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.5 x 20.5 x 2 cm
Book Weight:0.413 Kilograms
Author Biography
Frame, Janet (Author)
Janet Frame is a writer. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1924.

Frame has written eleven novels, five collections of short stories, a volume of poetry, and a children's book. She has received the Commonwealth Literature Prize, the Turnavsky Prize, a Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, a Robert Burns Fellowship, and a Sargeson Fellowship. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature from Otago University and is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and she is a past President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors.

Her three autobiographies, To the Island, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City, were turned into a three-part television series, and then a 1990 motion picture directed by Jane Campion. Frame was awarded the CBE in 1983. In 2015 Janet Frame's 1957 debut novel, Owls Do Cry, topped the second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll run by the New Zealand Book Council and Auckland Writers Festival.

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