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A Long Blue Monday (Paperback)
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A Long Blue Monday (Paperback)
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List price R318
Loot Price R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
You Save R57 (18%)
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The novel portrays, with dry humour, delicate irony and a touch of
nostalgia, the lives and feelings of young people in the late
1950s. "Erhard von Buren pours out memories of love affairs, of
family life, of student experiences or incidents from his
readings... His style is spiced with waywardness and wit." - Award
of the Canton Solothurn Prize for Literature. In A Long Blue
Monday, the narrator, who is temporarily away from home working on
a book about Sherwood Anderson, remembers his unrequited love
affair with Claudia, whom he met at college during rehearsals for a
play. How could he, the village lad, the son of a working-class
family, aspire to gain the affection of Claudia, a sophisticated
town girl, who lives with her wealthy family in a spacious house by
the river? Worlds seem to separate the two. But he is convinced
that where there's a will there's a way. As a young boy, he had
tried, by being a model pupil and a model son, to repair his
family's damaged reputation. But now, in spite of all his attempts,
his love remains unreciprocated. Finally he decides to take several
weeks off college to write a play - a trilogy, no less - to gain
Claudia's esteem.
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