White Boy Running - Softcover

Hope, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786496429 ISBN 13: 9781786496423

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2018

Synopsis

In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberals led him to write this satirical, evocative portrait of what it looked and felt like growing up in a country gripped by an absurd, racist insanity.

Full of exquisite and despairing descriptions, Hope weaves together journalistic commentary and his own personal story as he encounters the bloody battles that have divided his homeland. This is a mordantly witty account of escape, displacement and disillusionment, and a modern classic of journalistic memoir.

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Review:

Ventures deeper and deeper into the theatre of cruelty, enacting a tangled, horrifying dark comedy. Source: J.M. Coetzee

Hope writes with extraordinary exuberance and invention. Source: Literary Review

Marvellously chilling Source: The Times

Mocking, angry and beautiful Source: Washington Post

Exactly the right note of cold, poetic irony Source: Financial Times

Breathtaking to the very end Source: Guardian on 'My Mother's Lovers'

From the Author:

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of Kruger's Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, as well as My Mother's Lovers and Shooting Angels, which were both published to great acclaim. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1786496429
• ISBN 13: 9781786496423
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288