Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
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Add to basketSold by Second-handsome Books, College Station, TX, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 18 July 2023
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketVERY GOOD ? DUST JACKET: Chipping to top and bottom of spine w/voids present to both. Chipping to all outside corners w/voids. Chipping/closed tears to top and bottom edges of both panels w/voids, primarily bottom front. Abrasions to laminate face, both panels, primarily back. Spine sunned. Tears mended on reverse with archival tape; hinges and flap folds reinforced/mended with same. In first 2 pics, paper insert placed inside for improved appearance. BOARDS: Minor scuffing to crown and foot of spine and all outside corners. Shelf rubbing to bottom edges, both. BOOK: Minor staining to upper textblock foredge. Small bookshop label at lower left of FFEP. Minor stains to outside margin, pg. 210. Tears to outside foredge, pgs. 275 - 278. Minor offsetting to rear endpapers. PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION AND INSPECT PHOTOS CLOSELY FOR CONDITION DETAILS.
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Here on offer is a very nice copy of Alan Paton's seminal novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, a story of racial injustice, courage and hope, set in the prelude to apartheid in South Africa; the basis for the 1951 film of the same name. This is a true 1st American trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Scribners in 1948. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Brodart sleeve.
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" ?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 so compelling, and its understanding so compassionate that to read the book is to share intimately, even to the point of catharsis, in the grave human experience.? ?The New York Times
An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, was an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton?s impassioned novel about a black man?s country under white man?s law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry, the Beloved Country, is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man."
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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.
The above text was taken from Scribner publishing (via Google Books).
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