The Fourpenny Axe and a Snooker Cue
This is a story about growing up in a small racist town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, during the Apartheid years. The author is the oldest son of the town's mayor, a publican. He grew up between the hotel, where he was exposed at an early age to much of the town's less salubrious goings on, and a harsh boarding school experience. Garth relishes the simple language of a story told by cronies at the bar, where he served drinks to his father's customers in his holidays from the tender age of twelve. But the stories, some of them fabulous and more amusing or poignant for being real, are not told with nostalgia for the past. Patiently, as he…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-76041-034-6
- EAN: 9781760410346
- Produktnummer: 34372998
- Verlag: Ginninderra Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.1 cm 266 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 266
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