White Boy Running

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 the author

CHRISTOPHER HOPE was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of nine novels, including Kruger's Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, and My Mother's Lovers, published by Atlantic Books in 2006 to great acclaim. He is also a poet and playwright and author of the celebrated memoir White Boy Running (1988). The Garden of Bad Dreams is his latest collection of short stories.

Summary

The classic memoir of growing up in South Africa during the apartheid regime from literary tour de force, Christopher Hope.

Foreword

The classic memoir of growing up in South Africa during the apartheid regime from literary tour de force, Christopher Hope.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hope, Christopher (Author) Hope
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2018
• EAN: 9781786496423
• ISBN: 978-1-78649-642-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 268 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Africa, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Africa / South, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Travel writing, Republic of South Africa, Southern Africa, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Politics and government, Travel and holiday