YOU CAN'T GET LOST IN CAPETOWN (A Pantheon modern writers original) Unknown - 1987

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1987. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1987. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1987. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York. 1987. April 1987. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394560302. 185 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Roger Palmer. Jacket design by Louise Fili. keywords: Literature South Africa Women . FROM THE PUBLISHER - You Can 't Get Lost in Cape Town introduces American readers to a compelling new voice from South Africa. Zoe Wicomb's book of connected stories is a superb portrayal of a woman coming to terms with her rejected past, acknowledging the price of having strayed from the culture that shaped her. Frieda Shenton has returned from England, a reluctant visitor to the country from which, as a young woman, she sought to escape. She had left behind her childhood in a rural South African township and later experiences of living and working in Cape Town, where she discovered - despite her father's optimism - that education, for a black woman, means neither freedom nor an end to personal insecurity. Now, years later, return brings a fresh perspective on… Leer más

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Pantheon, 1987-03-12. Hardcover. Good.

New York Pantheon, 1987, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in U.S. -- Connected stories of a woman raised in the rural township of Namaqualand, her experience in England, and her return to colonialism and segregation in South Africa. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket (tiny rub at corners). ISBN 0394560302

New York: Pantheon, 1987. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Stated First American edition. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET WITH $10.95 PRICE.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($10.95), rubbed at the edges, a closed tear at the top of the back panel. Quarter tan cloth with cream paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of short stories that tell the story of "a woman coming to terms with her rejected past, acknowledging the price of having strayed from the culture that shaped her." Wicomb was one of the winners of the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes awarded by the Beinecke Library.