RICHARD RIVE - WRITING BLACK IN SOUTH AFRICA

2013, second impression. Soft cover. 297 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound, neat and clean. Under 1kg. The book describes the author’s childhood in Cape Town’s notorious slum, District Six, and then traces his academic and literary careers. The former gathered momentum after he won a competitive scholarship to high school at the age of thirteen and continued until he had earned degrees from the universities of Cape Town and Columbia, and a doctorate from Oxford for his thesis on the South African writer Olive Schreiner.