The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club - Couverture rigide

Liebenberg, Lauren

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844084892 ISBN 13 : 9781844084890

Editeur : Virago Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

For all of us there comes a fall, a loss of innocence - a time after which we are never again the same. For twelve-year-old Tommy and Chris, growing up on the mines of Johannesburg, that time came in 1958. Goaded by the pulse of Elvis, Little Richard and the kwela kwela rhythms of the black ghettos, these young jive cats of the West Rand Cons Mine look to prove their grit on the slumyard dance floors and in the sweat-soaked ring of the boxing club, run by the enigmatic and wise Jock McGinty. But Tommy has a little sister Cecilia, sweet, whimisical and vulnerable. Unwittingly, she will make the friends face a choice between courage and cowardice, between loyalty and betrayal, This is a poignant, compelling story about the endurance of friendship, and about coming of age in South Africa at a time that was at once charmed and cruel.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lauren Liebenberg was born in what was Rhodesia and spent her early childhood in the crucible of the civil war. She now lives in South Africa and has an MBA from the business school of the University of Witwatersrand. She is married to an Englishman and has two young children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844084892
• ISBN 13: 9781844084890
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible