The Distance by Vladislavic, Ivan

The Distance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781939810762)

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Format: Paperback
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The Distance by Vladislavic, Ivan

The Distance

$20.00
The Distance by Vladislavic, Ivan

The Distance

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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A boxing bildungsroman - a collage of memories, love, resistance, and the spectacle of Muhammed Ali in Apartheid South Africa.

In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting daily newspaper clippings about him, a passion that grows into an archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks become the foundation for a memoir of his childhood. When he calls upon his brother, Branko, for help uncovering their shared past, meaning comes into view in the spaces between then and now, growing up and growing old, speaking out and keeping silent.

Author: Ivan Vladislavic
ISBN-10: 1939810760
ISBN-13: 9781939810762
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.70w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 10/05/2020
Shelf Awareness 10/02/2020
By Ivan Vladislavic
By Ivan Vladislavic
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Ivan Vladislavic is a novelist, essayist, and editor. He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. His books include The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, Portrait with Keys, and Double Negative. Among his recent publications are Flashback Hotel, a compendium of early stories, and The Loss Library. His work has won several prizes, including the University of Johannesburg Prize, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, and the Alon Paton Award for non-fiction. In 2015, He was awarded Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.

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