Absent : the English teacher / John Eppel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eppel, John, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zimbabwean fiction (English).

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Harare : Weaver Press ; Johannesburg : Jacana Media, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo, ëhis pension payout, after forty years of full-time service, bought him two jam doughnuts and a soft tomato.í When he backs his uninsured white Ford Escort into a brand new Mercedes Benz, the out-of-court settlement sees him giving up his house to the complainant, Beauticious Nyamayakanuna, and becoming her domestic servant. Through the prism of this engaging post-colonial role reversal, and spiced with Georgeís lessons on Shakespeare, John Eppel draws down the curtain on one particular white man in Africa

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Author; Table of Contents; Introduction; Dedication; 1. Pale Moon Rising; 2. A Glint of Copper; 3. A Weekend in Elsinore; 4. Wabenzi; 5. Letting Slip; 6. A Little Touch of Georgy in the Night; 7. For She My Mind Hath So Dispac'd; 8. A Hard Day's Night; 9. Deus ex Machina; 10. Hope Deferred and a Longing Fulfilled; 11. Reason Not...; 12. ...The Need; 13. Words, Words, Words; 14. Return to Elsinore; 15. Doing It; 16. The Enormous Turnip; 17. Salmagundi; 18. A Sentence is but a Chev'ril Glove...; 19. Long Day's Journey; 20. Into Night; 21. Westering

22. George Jorge George of the BushveldBack Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612868931

9781779221858

1779221851

9781282868939

1282868934

9781779221155

1779221150

9781779221148

1779221142

9781779221025

1779221029

OCLC:

830166017