TY - BOOK AU - Frame, Janet, TI - To the is-land: an autobiography SN - 0807610429 : AV - PR9639.3.F7 Z477 1982 U1 - 823.2 19 PY - 1982/// CY - New York PB - G. Braziller KW - Frame, Janet, KW - Authors, New Zealand KW - 20th century KW - Biography N1 - Continued by: Angel at my table N2 - TO THE IS-LAND is the first book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holryod as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century.' It chronicles her childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family in the 1920s and 30s. First published in 1983, it won the prestigious Wattie Book of the Year Award ER -