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Innocents In Africa: An American Family's Story
de Pifer, Drury
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151075646
- ISBN 13
- 9780151075645
- Librería
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Harcourt Brace , 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs, 338 pages. With wry humor and sharp observation, playwright Pifer elegantly mixes memory and research to reconstruct the world of his South African boyhood from 1933 to 1945. Pifer's father, an idealistic mining engineer in search of challenge and stability during the Depression, found it in Africa, but his earnest American egalitarianism soon put him in conflict with Afrikaner mine overseers, and his career under magnate Sir Ernest Oppenheimer stalled. The author deftly evokes his family--"my mother had the freedom of a disobedient daughter"--and the isolation of the desert town of Oranjemund. The book is even more resonant in its snapshots of mid-century Southern Africa: the still-simmering enmity between Afrikaners and the English; the ripples from Hitler's war in what prior to WW I had been the German territory of South West Africa (currently Namibia). Pifer's knowing account of the travails of servants--"the chasm that exists between white mistress and African maid"--still rings true today. Clean copy. Record # 385756
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- Librería
- Browsing Is Arousing
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 385756
- Título
- Innocents In Africa: An American Family's Story
- Autor
- Pifer, Drury
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0151075646
- ISBN 13
- 9780151075645
- Editorial
- Harcourt Brace
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1994
- Palabras clave
- Biography, Africa, , .
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biography;
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