Kaffir Boy:The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age inApartheid South Africa **SIGNED**

Mathabane, Mark 1960-

ISBN 10: 0452259436 / ISBN 13: 9780452259430

Published by Plume Book/ New American Library, New York NY, 1987

About this Item

PRICE REDUCED! In his debut book Mathabane presents his autobiography of a supportive family in 1960s and 70s South Africa as apartheid worked to keep him down, but a white family who employed his grandmother gave him books and a tennis racket that led to his meeting Stan Smith and Arthur Ashe. This copy is in excellent condition as a reprint paperback of the 1986 Macmillan hardback.It is a first printing simply signed by Mathabane on the title page. The book has slight wear, an owner's name on the inside cover and will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.PRICE REDUCED!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kaffir Boy:The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age inApartheid South Africa **SIGNED**
• Publisher: Plume Book/ New American Library, New York NY
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452259436
• ISBN 13: 9780452259430
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A Black writer describes his childhood in South Africa under apartheid and recounts how Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith helped him leave for America on a tennis scholarship

Review

"Powerful, intense, inspiring."

-- "Publishers Weekly"

"Powerful, intense, inspiring."-- "Publishers Weekly"

"Like . . . Claude Brown's "Manchild in the Promised Land" . . . in every way as important and exciting."-- "The Washington Post"

"This is a rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra, one of South Africa's notorious black townships. Rare because it comes . . . from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there."-- "Chicago Tribune"