Cry, the Beloved Country - Paperback
by Alan Paton
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alan PatonSeries:Oprah's Classics Book Club SelectionsTheme:Catalog Heading/Classics, Cultural Region/British, Cultural Region/Southern Africa, Curriculum Strand/Language Arts/Literature, Ethnic Orientation/African American, Religious Orientation/ChristianAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2003-11-01Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743262170ISBN-10:743262174UPC:9780743262170Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, ChristianSize:8.04 x 5.44 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC3GV6Z4KF
"The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time." --The New Republic "A beautiful novel...its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and full, its events
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743262170ISBN-10:743262174UPC:9780743262170Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, ChristianSize:8.04 x 5.44 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC3GV6Z4KF
Paton, Alan: - Alan Paton, a native son of South Africa, was born in Pietermaritzburg, in the province of Natal, in 1903. Paton's initial career was spent teaching in schools for the sons of rich, white South Africans, But at thirty, he suffered a severe attack of enteric fever, and in the time he had to reflect upon his life, he decided that he did not want to spend his life teaching the sons of the rich. He got a job as principal of Diepkloof Reformatory, a huge prison school for delinquent black boys, on the edge of Johannesburg. He worked at Diepkloof for ten years, and at the end of it Paton felt so strongly that he needed a change, that he sold his life insurance policies to finance a prison-study trip that took him to Scandinavia, England, and the United States. It was during this time that he unexpectedly wrote his first published novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. It stands as the single most important novel in South African literature. Alan Paton died in 1988 in South Africa.
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