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Life Sentence - A Biography of Herman Charles Bosman (Paperback)
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Life Sentence - A Biography of Herman Charles Bosman (Paperback)
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Price R334
Discovery Miles 3 340
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This is the absorbing (and often shocking) story of the life of the
most famous and best loved writer in South Africa of the first half
of the twentieth century. Bosman was born in the Cape in 1905,
schooled in Johannesburg and trained as a teacher, then sent to a
backveld school - the people he met there and the observations he
made were the source for the stories in his bestselling Mafeking
Road. After a sensational trial, found guilty of murdering his
step-brother in cold blood, he served his term in Pretoria Central
Prison - the source of his classic Cold Stone Jug. During his years
of exile in Paris and London and when he returned to South Africa
to make a popular career as a sly commentator, he produced A cask
of Jerepigo. Before his untimely death in 1951, he became the
country's best loved humorist. In this biography Bosman's
extraordinary career is reconstructed from documents and his
papers, to present the most revealing and explicit portrait of
South Africa's most controversial author. Gray's investigation has
thrown new light on many aspects of Bosman's life - some of his
outrageous actions will astound his many faithful readers. Bosman
himself ) with which Gray at times paints this
fuller-than-ever-before portrait of his subject.
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