Young Harry Moto has problems with fallen arches, crinkly hair that won't flatten down, a plump chest and, for a white man, unusually dark skin. Harry's appearance provokes mercilessly sarcastic taunting from his school mates but, living in South Africa, it is not surprising that it is his skin colour which eventually brings about his downfall...
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Young Harry Moto has problems with fallen arches, crinkly hair that won't flatten down, a plump chest and, for a white man, unusually dark skin. Harry's appearance provokes mercilessly sarcastic taunting from his school mates but, living in South Africa, it is not surprising that it is his skin colour which eventually brings about his downfall...
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Add this copy of A Separate Development: a Novel of South Africa to cart. $3.99, good condition, Sold by The Maryland Book Bank rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from baltimore, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Scribner Book Company.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1981. Scribner's. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684173085. 1st Novel by Prize Winning Poet. Banned In South Africa At Publication Time. 199 pages. hardcover. Cover: David Gatti. keywords: Africa South Africa Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-This first novel by a prize-winning poet was banned in South Africa soon after publication. It is a part comic, part tragic tale of misadventure and injustice: a scathing, lyrical, bitterly funny, truly haunting indictment of senseless prejudice in the tradition of Alan Paton and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Harry Moto, a young boy about to come of age, lives in increasing fear of being different in a world where equality means privilege-Harry has no ID card, and no ID card means identity, no protection under the law. It is the law, not the faint tan of his skin, that sets Harry apart. Caught in a compromising position with a rich white girl at a school dance, Harry feels it is necessary to flee in order to avoid charges under the Immorality Act. Displaced and misclassified, he tries to escape by disappearing into a squalid lifestyle forced upon the underprivileged. But Harry isn't a busboy safe anywhere. Working as in a road house, he runs into the girl he took to the dance. Living in constant dread of rape and robbery, she confuses her friend with her fear. Trapped by misunderstanding and lunatic justice, Harry lands in jail, where he is made to write his confession, for if he is to have any hope of freedom, he must collaborate with the system that has denied him the dignity and security of a normal development. Like Holden Caulfield, Harry Moto will join the pantheon of memorable characters who, in the face of confusion and restraint, not only survive but triumph. inventory #4742.
Add this copy of A Separate Development to cart. $19.50, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Scribner's.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book shows rubbing to top and bottom edges. Dustwrapper shows rubbing to top and bottom edges. Hardcover.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0684173085. The author's first novel. First American edition, first printing. Fine in a very near fine (slightly sun faded spine, tiny closed tear at the top of the rear panel) dust jacket.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American edition. Page edges faintly foxed and a gentle bump at the spine base, very near fine in a spine-sunned else just about fine dust jacket. Winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction for best first novel, *A Separte Development* was banned in South Africa for its criticism of the Apartheid government. Christopher Hope received the Whitbread Prize in 1984 and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 1992.
Add this copy of A Separate Development [+ Prize Correspondence] to cart. $33.47, very good condition, Sold by Dodman Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Morston, NORFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1981 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. pp. 203. 1981 winner of the David Higham Award, "wickedly laying bare the absurdities of apartheid". Three items of correspondence laid in reflecting this, one from the National Book League and two from David Higham Associates. Light dust spotting to top of block and minor foxing to edge, but otherwise all in VG, clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Smart yellow boards with bright gilt titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j, lightly marked and a little faded. 8vo. [4] 199pp.
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Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books-these should be considered reading copies. Our books ar.
