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Absorbing story of the life of the most famous white writer in South Africa of the first half of the Twentieth Century. Born in the Cape in 1905, schooled in Johannesburg and trained as a teacher, then sent to a backveld school the source for the stories in his bestselling Mafeking Road. After a sensational trial, found guilty of murdering his step brother in cold blood, he served his term in Pretoria Central Prison the source of his classic Cold Stone Jug. Bosman's extraordinary career is reconstructed from documents and his papers, to present the most revealing and explicit portrait of this most controversial South African author.

382 pages
Paperback
Author: Stephen Gray