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Childhood (Paperback)
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Childhood (Paperback)
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Loot Price R455
Discovery Miles 4 550
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A true story The world in which the child finds himself is one of
vivid and wondrous beauty, and horrifying ugliness, too, that
thrills with its suggestion of evil. The father, old enough to be a
granddaddy, prides himself a self-made man, likes to dress well and
doesn't take crap. The younger mother, a former school teacher, can
be teasingly friendly: at other times, as coldly indifferent as
ice. School proves difficult. Neither parent is ever satisfied, not
even with passing. By the fourth grade, the boy is confined to the
principal's office every afternoon. And on the bus, required to sit
in plain sight on the heater by the driver, this for fighting.
Military school faces him at age eleven. Fun with girls leads to an
obsession with sex and daring escapades. However, the cadet's
growing sense of abandonment imposes a death sentence upon him: he
envisions a hanging. A shadow looming, this hanging spells trouble.
To parents who are stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened he
returns. The child survives, most of him does; we do not leave
childhood without sacrificing something. At the very end, he is
saved in a way that is not unexpected, yet still astonishing
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