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Wrestling with the Angel A life of Janet Frame Michael King PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11, Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017, India Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL, England First published by Penguin Group (NZ), 2000 Copyright © Michael King 2000 The right of Michael King to be identified as the author of this work in terms of section 96 of the Copyright Act 1994 is hereby asserted. Digital conversion by Pindar NZ All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of New Zealand. www.penguin.co.nz ISBN 978-1-74228-827-7 Contents Author’s Note Prologue One Railway People Two Kingdom by the Sea Three Like Cousin Peg … Four An Unravelling Five Out of the Depths Six Except through Storm Seven Into the World Eight Sorcerer’s Apprentice Nine Traveller’s Joy? Ten In the Warm South Eleven Towards Sanctuary Twelve A Home in the Maudsley Thirteen A Career Resumed Fourteen On the Rock of Her Self Fifteen A Roots Crisis Sixteen Return of the Prodigal Seventeen Exiled at Home Eighteen Dunedin and the Messrs Burns Nineteen Home and Away Twenty Utopia Discovered and Postponed Twenty-One Cherishing America Twenty-Two Lonely for Her Own Kind Twenty-Three Away from Civilisation Twenty-Four The Mansfield Connection Twenty-Five In Search of Silence Twenty-Six State of Siege Twenty-Seven A Change of Direction Twenty-Eight Gathering Fame Twenty-Nine Ascending Angel Thirty An Allegiance to Origins Acknowledgements Bibliography of Janet Frame’s writing Bibliography of other works used or cited Notes For Maria:the angel at my table So Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled an angel with him until daybreak, who, when he saw he was not throwing him, struck his hip socket so that Jacob’s thigh was dislocated … The angel said, ‘Let me go for the day is breaking.’ But Jacob replied, ‘I will not let you go until you bless me’ … The angel said, ‘Your name will be Jacob no longer, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with men and have won’ … And the angel blessed him there. Jacob named that place Peniel, for ‘I saw God face to face and yet my life was preserved …’ GENESIS 32, 24–31 Author Note Janet Frame agreed to cooperate with the writing of this book but expressed two preferences: that it not be a critical biography (an analysis of her writing); and that I do not quote verbatim from my interviews with her. I have complied with both requests. There was no question I put to her that she did not answer; and she made no attempt to dissuade me from publishing any information that my research uncovered. For all of which I thank her, and for permission to quote from her copyrighted material, published and unpublished.
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