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Synopsis
"Your mother was insane. If you're not careful you'll get insane just like your mother. Your mother was a white woman. They had to lock her up, as she was having a child by the stable boy who was a native". It is never clear to Elizabeth whetherthis cruel revelation of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown. In the darkness of a country where the people turn and look at her with curiosity as an outsider we are taken in and out of sanity and plunged into the deepest depths of the mind.
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?Head brilliantly develops ascending degrees of personal isolation, and is very moving when she describes abating pain.?-The Sunday Times
About the Author
Bessie Head was born in 1937 in South Africa, of mixed parentage. Her first novel, WHEN RAIN CLOUDS GATHER grew out of her experience as a refugee and was followed by MARU and A QUESTION OF POWER. She spent the latter part of her life exiled in Botswana where she died aged only 49 in 1986.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0706701240
- ISBN 13 9780706701241
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages206
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A Question of Power
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David-Poynter Ltd, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0706701240
ISBN 13: 9780706701241
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First Edition
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: David-Poynter Ltd., 1973. First Edition. Octavo (22.2 cm), 206pp. Grey publisher's dust jacket with price intact (£3.00) and author photo on the back flap. Boards bound in red paper with gilt stamping on the spine. Ex-library with minimal markings - dust jacket has library label on spine ("HEA"), tape residue on front pastedown, institutional rubber stamp on pages 13 and 205. Dust jacket lightly toned on flaps and has minor scratches to the cover with no lifting. Verso lightly toned. Boards lightly soiled, including a white spot on the front cover, with some minor discoloration to the top margin; corners and spine ends bumped. Pages relatively clean. A Scarce, Very Good Copy with a Very Good dust jacket. Bessie Head was a South African writer who, after her expatriation, was considered Botswana's most influential author. A Question of Power was her third novel with an autobiographical bend; the novel explores what it's like to experience extreme psychological distress. [Gardner & Scott 25]. Seller Inventory # 30409
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