The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood

by Glen Retief

Book Overview

An extraordinary, literary memoir from a gay white South African, coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s.

Glen Retief's childhood was at once recognizably ordinary--and brutally unusual. Raised in the middle of a game preserve where his father worked, Retief's warm nuclear family was a preserve of its own, against chaotic forces just outside its borders: a childhood friend whose uncle led a death squad, while his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250002745
• ISBN13: 9781250002747
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"