Wide Boy - The True-ish Story of a Jo'Burg Spiv (Paperback)

On the streets of Bez Valley Tony grew up hard and he grew up fast. In the cosmopolitan working-class suburbs of Johannesburg, he mixed with, and mixed it with, Jews, Greeks, Italians, Lebanese, blacks, Afrikaners and occasionally Anglo-Saxons. His first rite of passage is to subdue the ruthless Agnee gang, a bunch of Afrikaans school bullies. Learning tactics from his Uncle Mick, a professional wrestler who wears a large Star of David on his back to incite the anti-Jewish crowds of the East Rand, Tony starts on his life-journey of opportunism, petty crime, street-fighting and questionable business practices, driven always by his never-ending quest "to make money lots of it." Wide boy will take the reader directly into the balmy streets of a summer day in 1946 Bez Valley; to the street-brawls of the 1950s' Hillbrow and Yeoville; to the post-war euphoric boom days of Southern Rhodesia, the ensuing bush war, sanctions-busting and, finally, to return full-circle to the sometimes murky otherworld of 'big business' in Johannesburg.

General

Imprint:	30 Degrees South Publishers
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	November 2005
Authors:	Montague Bentley
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-9584890-7-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > From 1900 > General Books > History > African history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-9584890-7-6
Barcode:	9780958489072

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