The Jack Bank
A Memoir of a South African Childhood
by Glen Retief
275 pages· 2011· ISBN 9780312590932
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A gay white South African recalls his coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s, describing such factors as his friend's activities as a death squad leader, his sister's victimization at the hands of their grandfather and the brutality of his boarding school. 25,000 first printing.
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