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Verwoerd - My Journey Through Family Betrayals (Paperback): Wilhelm Verwoerd Verwoerd - My Journey Through Family Betrayals (Paperback)
Wilhelm Verwoerd
R345 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R48 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

When, in the 1990s, Wilhelm Verwoerd openly spoke out against his grandfather's racist policies and joined the ANC, he was ejected from the family. Working in Northern Ireland, making peace between former enemies, he feels the urge to return to his homeland, to make peace with his own family. 

Between listening to searing stories of friends and neigbours’ suffering under apartheid, he reads Betsie Verwoerd’s intimate private diaries. This moving memoir examines the complexities of having Verwoerd blood in your veins in the full knowledge that Verwoerd has blood on his hands.

A nuanced and intimate look at family loyalty, betrayal, and the demands of restitution in South Africa.

Space Crone (Paperback): Ursula K. Le Guin Space Crone (Paperback)
Ursula K. Le Guin
R440 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Elizabeth Taylor - The Grit And Glamour Of An Icon (Paperback): Kate Andersen Brower Elizabeth Taylor - The Grit And Glamour Of An Icon (Paperback)
Kate Andersen Brower
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 In Stock

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.

Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy.

Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist.

Using Elizabeth's unpublished letters, diary entries and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywood star who continues to captivate audiences the world over.

Die Eindelose Avontuur - 'n Venser op die Wereldletterkunde (Afrikaans, Paperback): Audrey Blignault Die Eindelose Avontuur - 'n Venser op die Wereldletterkunde (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Audrey Blignault
R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Black Joy - Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration (Paperback): Lewis-Giggetts Black Joy - Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration (Paperback)
Lewis-Giggetts
R472 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Baarde, Briewe En Barmhartigheid (Afrikaans, Paperback): Doc Immelman Baarde, Briewe En Barmhartigheid (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Doc Immelman
R163 Discovery Miles 1 630 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

'n Postume versameling van werk uit die geliefde Namibiese jagter-skrywer se pen. Sy persoonlike geskiedenis en herinneringe vloei kleurryk deur sy byna tasbare vertellinge heen. Op kenmerkende Immelman-wyse word verklaar waarom kameelry geen grap is nie, wonder waarom sommiges ryk is of oud word, waarom mans en vroue verskil, terwyl sy histeriese blik op fotoverhale, handleidings en tikfoute die leser sal laat skater.

Tweespoor (Afrikaans, Paperback): Helena Gunter Tweespoor (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Helena Gunter
R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In 1920 skilder Paul Klee die olieverf-skildery, Angelus Novus. In 1940 vertolk Walter Benjamin in sy geskrif, “Uber den Begriff der Geschichte”, dat dit is hoe die engel van die geskiedenis moet lyk: met oopgesperde vlerke, op die punt om weg te vlieg, kyk hy om. Hy sien ’n katastrofiese verlede, wil terug, die wrakstukke wat hy daar sien opruim, maar ’n storm uit die paradys het hom aan die vlerke beet, waai hom genadeloos die toekoms in. In die eerste gedeelte van Tweespoor word ’n spesifieke suider-afrikaanse verlede ontgin, en in die tweede ’n stormagtige eietydse werklikheid. Benewens die twee spore waarop die bundel kortprosa loop, veroorsaak die geskiedenis wat ingesement in die psiges van karakters le, en die opsies wat die hede bied, ’n turbulensie wat mense in twee rye spore laat loop.

Slot van die dag: Gedagtes (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Karel Schoeman Slot van die dag: Gedagtes (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Karel Schoeman
R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Slot van die dag: Gedagtes is die skrywer se mymeringe oor ouderdom en die einde van die lewe, saam met verspreide herinnerings van ’n algemene aard, om ’n ryk geskakeerde beeld te verskaf van ’n skrywerslewe van byna tagtig jaar. Die reeks outobiografiese boeke wat met ’n Duitser aan die Kaap, Merksteen en Die laaste Afrikaanse boek begin het, word hiermee afgesluit. Dit is 'n baie persoonlike boek oor ouderdom, die skryfproses en selfbeskikking met kommentaar op oud word en wees, met inbegrip van praktiese wenke, en heelwat inligting oor die moontlike en waarskynlike einde van die lewe. Die element van afskeid en gelatenheid is deurlopend. Die ouderdom is teenswoordig die vernaamste onderwerp van sy oorpeinsing, en die vernaamste element in sy daagliks ervarings. Die verwysings en aanhalings is treffend en spreek van iemand wat sy leeswereld ook sy leefwereld maak. Ten slotte verduidelik die skrywer sy bevrydende besluit oor selfdood.

'n Leksel Sout Uit Die Maande (Afrikaans, Paperback): Jan Nel 'n Leksel Sout Uit Die Maande (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Jan Nel
R67 Discovery Miles 670 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In hierdie versameling essays ondersoek meesterverteller Jan Nel die onvernietigbaarheid van die lewe: Immer is daar seisoene. Immer is daar ná die eb weer ’n gety; ná die winterdood weer lentelewe; ná die val weer opstaan; ná die leed weer vreugde. Dieselfde maand wat liggame opeis, stoot vars blomme uit die verwarmende grond. Uit die dooie takke van ’n boom, uit die dooie winter, kom nuwe lewe. Hoekom dan twyfel dat daar vir die mens insgelyks hoop kan wees? Op sy tipiese wyse en beeldende vertelstyl, deurweef met beide diepte en kwinkslae, ontbloot hy daardie tikkies van die ewigheid in elke liewe ding, van ’n melodie se soetheid tot goeters in ’n deurmekaar laai.

Kroniek van turf (Afrikaans, Paperback): Dolf van Niekerk Kroniek van turf (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Dolf van Niekerk
R61 Discovery Miles 610 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Hierdie novelle sluit aan by twee vorige prosawerke van Dolf van Niekerk, naamlik die jeugverhaal Karel Kousop (1985) en Koms van die hyreen (1994). Kroniek van turf is gedeeltelik ’n prequel vir die vorige twee boeke. Dit vertel die geskiedenis van Gerrit, ’n werknemer van die VOC, wat in die 18de eeu begin boer op ’n leningsplaas in die Roggeland. Omstandighede dwing hom om na die distrik Swellendam te verskuif. Sy twee seuns, Johannes en Daniel, soek albei later ook na ’n veiliger blyplek, aanvanklik in die Kamdebo. Onrus op die Oosgrens laat hulle verder trek; Johannes na wat tans die Vrystaat is en Daniel saam met die Voortrekkers na Natal, waar hy en sy vrou slagoffers van die Bloukransmoorde word. Waar Johannes hom op ’n plaas tussen die Riet- en die Modderrivier vestig, maak hy weer kontak met die Kousop-Boesmans wat hy vroeer naby die Gariep ontmoet het. Tussen Johannes se nageslag en die Boesmans ontwikkel ’n vae, onsekere band wat oor meer as ’n eeu sou strek. Onverwags maak een van Johannes se nasate, Johan, tydens die Bosoorlog kennis met ’n Boesmanspoorsnyer wat ook ’n Kousop-nasaat blyk te wees en wat ’n bepalende rol in ’n grondeis op Johan se plaas tussen die twee riviere sou speel.

Notes on Grief (Paperback): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Notes on Grief (Paperback)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
R153 Discovery Miles 1 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language' On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria. In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.

Ware mense (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Bart de Graaff Ware mense (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Bart de Graaff; Translated by Daniel Hugo
R91 Discovery Miles 910 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Bart de Graaff is ’n Nederlandse historikus en joernalis wat ’n besonderse belangstelling in die Suid-Afrikaanse politiek en kultuur het. In 2015 en 2016 het hy verskeie besoeke aan Suid-Afrika en Namibie gebring. Sy oogmerk was om die nasate van die Khoi-Khoin, synde die eerste “ware mense” van die subkontinent, op te spoor, en aan die woord te stel. Hierdie boek is die resultaat van sy onderhoude. De Graaff kontekstualiseer nie net die geskiedenis van die Khoi-Khoin en haar vele vertakkings nie, maar stel ook bepaalde eietydse leiersfigure in die onderskeie gemeenskappe aan die woord. Daarvolgens word die historiese kyk na legendariese kapteins soos die Korannas se Goliat Yzerbek, die Griekwas se Adam Kok, die Basters se Dirk Vilander, Abraham Swartbooi van die Namas en Frederik Vleermuis van die Oorlams afgewissel met De Graaff se persoonlike reisindrukke en die talle gesprekke wat hy met die waarskynlike nasate van bogenoemde leiers gehad het. In sy onopgesmukte skryfstyl, vol deernis en humor, vertel De Graaff van hierdie ontmoetings en gesprekke en algaande kom die leser onder die indruk van die sistemiese geweld wat teen die Khoi-Khoin oor soveel eeue heen gepleeg is. Dit is ’n belangrike boek wat die geskiedenis en huidige stand van die bruin mense onder hulle landsgenote se aandag bring.

Verwoerd aan die woord II - Die laaste vier jaar. Toesprake 1963-1966 (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Wilhelm J. Verwoerd Verwoerd aan die woord II - Die laaste vier jaar. Toesprake 1963-1966 (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Wilhelm J. Verwoerd
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die laaste vier jaar van dr. H.F. Verwoerd se bewind is gekenmerk deur belangrike gebeurtenisse in suidelike Afrika, soos die toekenning van selfregering aan die Transkei, die verslag van die Odendaalkommissie oor S.W.A., die uitspraak in die Rivonia-saak, die aanvang van die Oranjerivierskema, die uitspraak van die Internasionale Geregshof in Den Haag oor die S.W.A.-mandaat, die eensydige onafhanklikheidsverklaring van Rhodese en die wapenverbod teen S.A. deur die V.N. Hierdie boek bevat ’n seleksie uit dr. Verwoerd se toesprake wat nie voorheen gepubliseer is nie.

On Animals (Paperback): Susan Orlean On Animals (Paperback)
Susan Orlean
R458 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R81 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Pan-African Pantheon - Prophets, Poets And Philosophers (Paperback): Adekeye Adebajo The Pan-African Pantheon - Prophets, Poets And Philosophers (Paperback)
Adekeye Adebajo
R380 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This book makes a unique contribution to the literature on Pan-Africanism by providing biographical essays of major Pan-African figures, both well known and less known. In so doing, it analyses Pan-Africanism as a school of thought, and connects this intellectual thinking to the lived experiences of those who practised and promoted such a world view.

It covers well known Pan-Africanists such as W.E.B. Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah and Frantz Fanon, as well as well-known figures not typically identified with Pan-Africanism in the mainstream, such as Maya Angelou and Mariama Ba.

The book also covers other areas, including the history of Pan-Africanism and the quest for reparations, pioneers, politicians and activists of Pan-Africanism, and Pan-Africanism in the humanities and social sciences, making it a great introductory reader for those interested in the subject. The book chapters are short, concise and easy to read. The authors are engaging and cover both historical and contemporary topics of interest to a wide audience, including university students. Attention has been directed at inclusive geographical and gender representation.

Briewe Uit Die Tankwa (Afrikaans, Paperback): Leti Kleyn, Dawid Slinger Briewe Uit Die Tankwa (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Leti Kleyn, Dawid Slinger; Photographs by Adriaan Oosthuizen
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Met kaarte en geografiese grense sal mens wel kan bepaal waar le die Tankwa-Karoo. maar vir Adriaan Oosthuizen kry jy die streek wanneer jy die langste grondpad tussen twee dorpe in Suid-Afrika aanpak: die pad tussen Ceres en Calvinia. Saam met Adriaan se foto’s vertel Leti Kleyn van haar besoek aan hierdie geliefde stuk land en dit word aangevul deur Dawid Slinger se vertellings en skrywes. ’n Fees vir die oog, lekkerleesboek en ’n inligtinggids ineen oor die geliefde streek wat die Tankwa-Karoo heet.

The Years - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE (Paperback): Annie Ernaux The Years - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE (Paperback)
Annie Ernaux; Edited by Alison L. Strayer
R301 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and communal, and a new genre - the collective autobiography - in order to capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is 'a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism' (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.

Om Hennie Aucamp Te Onthou (Afrikaans, Paperback): Danie Botha Om Hennie Aucamp Te Onthou (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Danie Botha
R61 Discovery Miles 610 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die geliefde en gevierde kortverhaalskrywer Hennie Aucamp is op 21 Maart 2014, slegs twee maande na sy 80ste verjaardag oorlede. In hierdie herinneringsboek word verskillende fasette van sy lewe deur familie, vriende en medeskrywers belig. Onder die familielede wat bydraes tot die boek gelewer het, is sy suster Rina wat herinneringe aan hulle kinderjare op die familieplaas Rus-mijn-ziel opdiep en sy neef Inus Aucamp wat meer vertel van die vestiging van die Aucamp-familie in die Stormberge. Die skryfster Margaret Bakkes, wat ook sy kleinniggie is en op 'n buurplaas grootgeword het, vertel hoe sy en Hennie reeds as kinders teenoor mekaar bely het dat hulle wil skryf. Daar is ook bydraes deur Marius en Christiaan Bakkes, wat oor Hennie se belangstelling in die natuur. Daar is besondere opstelle deur medeskrywers Lina Spies, Aletta Lubbe (gebore Aucamp), Danie Botha en Abraham de Vries, terwyl Daniel Hugo en Joan Hambidge gedigte opgedra aan Hennie gelewer het. Die radiopersoonlikhede Monica Breed en Margot Luyt skryf oor Hennie se ruimhartigheid en sy vriend Nico Loubser oor Hennie se laaste dae. Foto’s van Philip de Vos en Marius Bakkes skep 'n visuele beeld van die woordman Aucamp.

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America - Essays (Paperback): Kiese Laymon How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America - Essays (Paperback)
Kiese Laymon
R397 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R74 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Amfiteater - Skrywerstemme Van Oud-Tukkies (Afrikaans, Paperback): Amfiteater - Skrywerstemme Van Oud-Tukkies (Afrikaans, Paperback)
R143 Discovery Miles 1 430 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In sy honderdjarige bestaan – vanaf sy beskeie begin in 1908, met een professor, drie lektore en twee en dertig studente, tot die reuse instelling wat dit vandag is - het die Universiteit van Pretoria rigting en dimensie gegee aan talle mense se lewe. Amfiteater gee 'n blik op die talent van gevestigde en minder bekende skrywers wat eens UP se kampus bewandel het – en verenig so die stemme van oud-Tukkies uit verskeie lewensterreine. Die essays in Amfiteater sal nie net by Tuks-Alumni reg oor die ouderdom spektrum byval vind nie, maar ook by enige leser met waardering vir kort prosa. Die trant van die meerderheid essays is lig en vermaaklik en daarom nie op 'n suiwer akademiese gehoor afgestem nie. Bydraers is almal Tuks-alumni, en sluit bekendes in uit die wereld van skrywers, joernaliste politici, historici en verhoogkunstenaars: Marius Ackermann, Johan Bakkes, Chris Barnard, Louise Boshoff, Martjie Bosman, Paul Bosman, Pik Botha, Terence Carney, Louis Changuion, T.T. Cloete, Neil Cochrane, Johann de Jager, Engemi Ferreira, Jeanette Ferreira, Joan Hambidge, Karin Hougaard, Neels Jackson, Carie Maas, Annamarie Marais, Johann Lodewyk Marais, Lizz Meiring, Fransjohan Pretorius, Wessel Pretorius, Dalena van Jaarsveld, Dolf van Niekerk, Cas Vos, George Weideman.

Ons Japie - Die Boereoorlogdagboek van Anna Barry (Afrikaans, Paperback): Anna Barry Ons Japie - Die Boereoorlogdagboek van Anna Barry (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Anna Barry; Compiled by Ena Jansen
R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Wanneer ’n mens aan die ervarings van Boerevroue en -kinders tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog dink, is die outomatiese konnotasie die van konsentrasiekamplyding. ’n Fassinerende en grotendeels onbekende buitebeentjie in hierdie genre is die dagboek van Anna Barry, waaruit ’n unieke en veelkantige beeld van die oorlog na vore kom. Aan die een kant van Anna se oorlogservaring staan haar broer Japie – ’n begeesterde jong soldaat wat uiteindelik as krygsgevangene op Ceylon sterf. Hierteenoor le haar geliefde pa Thomas (aanvanklik ’n gerespekteerde veldkornet) al in 1900 die eed van neutraliteit af, en wag hy die grootste gedeelte van die oorlog in die neutrale Basoetoland uit. Vir die tienderjarige Anna is die oorlog as gevolg hiervan ’n uiters verwarrende ervaring en haar dagboek bied ’n sonderlinge blik op die gefragmenteerdheid en buigbaarheid van konsepte soos “identiteit”, “nasie” en “volk”. Die feit dat die dagboek eers in 1960 vir die eerste keer gepubliseer is en daarna grotendeels in die vergetelheid verval het, is verder veelseggend in terme van hoe Anna self verwag het haar ervarings kort na die oorlog ontvang sou word – maar ook in terme van hoe blinde lojaliteit aan sekere groepe so dikwels in die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrikaners vereis is. Die dagboekteks, geboekstut deur Ena Jansen se insiggewende en verhelderende voor- en nawoord, bied nie slegs ’n sonderlinge blik op die Anglo-Boereoorlog nie, maar is verweef met kwessies van taal, politieke mag en sosiale status wat vandag nog net so relevant is soos toe die dagboek geskryf is.

We Should All Be Feminists (Paperback): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists (Paperback)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4
R180 R152 Discovery Miles 1 520 Save R28 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently...' What does "feminism" mean today? In this personal, eloquently argued essay - adapted from her much-admired Tedx talk of the same name - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now - an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

Africa writes back - The African writers series and the launch of African literature (Paperback): James Currey Africa writes back - The African writers series and the launch of African literature (Paperback)
James Currey
R149 R117 Discovery Miles 1 170 Save R32 (21%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Africa Writes Back was published in 2008 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart - the novel which provided the impetus for the foundation of the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the Editorial Adviser. With the 50th anniversary of the AWS being celebrated in 2012, James Currey's book has a new resonance. '... not only the story of a publishing enterprise of great significance; it is also a large part of the story of African literature and its dissemination in the latter half of the twentieth century. The manuscript is full of the drama of that enterprise, the drama of dealing with the mother house, William Heinemann, of dealing with the often intractable political constraints dominating the intellectual space across Africa, and not least of all dealing with the writers themselves - with their ambitions, their temperaments, their financial needs and, at time, their perception of a colonial relationship between themselves and a European publishing house.' - Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury. North America: Ohio U Press; South Africa: Wits U Press; Nigeria: HEBN; Kenya: EAEP; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

Fen, Bog and Swamp - A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis (Hardcover): Annie Proulx Fen, Bog and Swamp - A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
Annie Proulx
R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!' Bill McKibben 'I learned something new - and found something amazing - on every page' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit and the consequent release of their stored carbon. Wide-ranging and idiosyncratic, Proulx's explanation of wetlands takes readers to the fens of sixteenth-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay Lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and introduces the nineteenth-century explorers who launched the ravaging of the Amazon rainforest. Proulx was born in the 1930s, a time, as she says, when 'in the ever-continuing name of progress, Western countries busily raped their own and other countries of minerals, timber, fish and wildlife.' Fen, Bog & Swamp is both a revelatory history and an urgent plea for wetland reclamation from a writer whose passionate devotion to observing and preserving the environment is on glorious display. 'Magnificent, bringing to life hitherto overlooked habitats' Guardian 'Proulx's sparkling book will open your eyes to humanity's reckless trashing of wetlands' Telegraph 'A haunting tribute ... Proulx's poetic description of these places, and peat itself, is a pleasure to read' Financial Times

Trump Rant 2021 - Christopher R. Agee on Donald J. Trump (Hardcover): Chris Agee Trump Rant 2021 - Christopher R. Agee on Donald J. Trump (Hardcover)
Chris Agee
R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Caustically humorous and polemically compulsive, Trump Rant is a work of meticulous political portraiture: a deep-delving and epoch-spanning investigation into the nature of power in American life, made luminous by Agee's nuanced, exploratory understanding of authoritarian drift and thwarted democratic aspiration in a number of world-historical contexts, from Belfast to the Balkans to the formerly Confederate South. Free-roaming in its breadth of reference and tonal range, the Rant is at once viscerally personal and unsettlingly resonant, infused throughout with an almost hypnotic sense of scale, largesse, and historical moment. Already renowned as a poet of emotional delicacy and singular stylistic vision, Agee's hallmark gifts of writerly intimacy and ethical resolve are here expanded and reconfigured on a panoramic canvas - moving from a pared-back opening section to the accelerating pace and barrage-like linguistic assaults of the latter addenda. But for all its freewheeling furies, shifting emotional registers and Kubrick-like black humour, it remains a remarkably formal work, moored to the relentlessly dangerous drumbeat of Donald J. Trump. The result is a combination of long-form radicalism and eclectic satire, startingly unique in its blend of aphorism, acuity and epic cultural imagining. Composed chronologically for nearly four years (from early 2017 until Election Day 2020), Trump Rant is a triumph of artistic witness and denunciation; an urgent retort to a global culture of imperilled legal standards and depleted literary response; and an incisive model of enlightenment and outrage in a "post-truth" world being visibly darkened by its criminal shadows.

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