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The distance / Ivan Vladislavić.
Van Pelt Library PR9369.3.V57 D578 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vladislavić, Ivan, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016.
- South Africa--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- South Africa.
- Manners and customs.
- Brothers--Fiction.
- Brothers.
- Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016--Fiction.
- Ali, Muhammad.
- South African fiction (English).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Century City, Cape Town : Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa, 2019.
- Summary:
- "In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He begins to collect cuttings about his hero from the newspapers, an obsession that grows into a ragged archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks both insist on and obscure a book about his boyhood. He turns to his brother Branko, a sound editor, for help with recovering their shared past. But can a story ever belong equally to two people? Against a spectacular backdrop, the heyday of the greatest showman of them all, Vladislavić unfolds a small, fragmentary story of family life and boyish ambition, illuminating the origins of a writing life and the limits of language"--by publisher.
- "In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He begins to collect cuttings about his hero from the newspapers, an obsession that grows into a ragged archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks both insist on and obscure a book about his boyhood. He turns to his brother Branko, a sound editor, for help with recovering their shared past. But can a story ever belong equally to two people? Against a spectacular backdrop, the heyday of the greatest showman of them all, Vladislavi♯⁷ unfolds a small, fragmentary story of family life and boyish ambition, illuminating the origins of a writing life and the limits of language"--by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781415210260
- 1415210268
- OCLC:
- 1090207234
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