Jack Bank A Memoir of a South African Childhood

Name: Jack Bank A Memoir of a South African Childhood
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ISBN: 9781250002747

ISBN-10: 1250002745

ISBN-13: 9781250002747

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Authors: Glen Retief

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An introspective and fascinating memoir about a gay, privileged white boy coming-of-age against a backdrop of a political and cultural landscape in transition. The Jack Bank explores what it was like to grow up in a rapidly changing, often violent society. Glen Retief's childhood was at once recognizably ordinary--and brutally unusual. His unflinching story of South Africa in the early 1970s explores not only issues of race and sexuality, but abuse, violence and retribution. Raised on the edges of a game preserve where his father worked, Retief's warm nuclear family was a haven against chaotic forces just outside its borders: lions lazing on the school yard's basketball court, a childhood…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Acknowledgments


The Weight of Elephants


Them and Me


The Killer's Nephew


A Man of Extraordinary Taste


The Jack Bank


Best Friends


The Castle


Black Boys of My Youth


Equals


Biographical Note


Author's Note


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