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Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

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Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

by Mathabane, Mark

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Plume, 1987. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8 pages of B&W photos. Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. For Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do -- he escaped to tell about it. 354 pages. Some rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine. Spine has a crease down it..

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When it comes to movie reviews, critic Violet Epps is a powerhouse voice. But that’s only because she’s learned to channel her literary hero Dorothy Parker, the most celebrated and scathing wit of the twentieth century. If only Violet could summon that kind of strength in her personal life. Violet visits the Algonquin Hotel in an attempt to find inspiration from the hallowed dining room where Dorothy Parker and so many other famous writers of the 1920s traded barbs, but she gets more than she bargained for when Parker’s feisty spirit rematerializes. An irreverent ghost with problems of her own—including a refusal to cross over to the afterlife—Mrs. Parker helps Violet face her fears, becoming in turn mentor and tormentor…and ultimately, friend. READERS GUIDE INSIDE

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Title
Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
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Mathabane, Mark
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Plume, 1987
Keywords
SOUTH AFRICA BIOGRAPHY BLACKS APARTHEID AUTOBIOGRAPHY GENERAL POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIAL ETHNOLOGY 0452259436
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