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- catalog abstract "Besie Head was a born writer, but one born also to a deprived childhood and a life of often recurring hardship. Indeed, her life echoes many aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last half-century. She was born in an asylum to a white woman who was considered mad; her father was black. Yet despite the disadvantages of being both a person of mixed race and a woman she made her way in Cape Town and Johannesburg as a journalist. As the political crisis deepened in South Africa in the 1960s, Bessie went into exile in rural Botswana. Although her life as a refugee in Botswana was full of crises and upheavals, her creative energy was released by her adopted country and she produced stories and novels - such as Where Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, A Question of Power - that won her an international reputation. Bessie Head - Thunder Behind Her Ears is an engrossing biography of the turbulent life of one of Africa's great writers, whose reputation is growing by the year. It describes with insight the driving force of Bessie's writing talent, her fiery personality and her often grinding circumstances.".
- catalog contributor b8678374.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Besie Head was a born writer, but one born also to a deprived childhood and a life of often recurring hardship. Indeed, her life echoes many aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last half-century. She was born in an asylum to a white woman who was considered mad; her father was black. Yet despite the disadvantages of being both a person of mixed race and a woman she made her way in Cape Town and Johannesburg as a journalist. As the political crisis deepened in South Africa in the 1960s, Bessie went into exile in rural Botswana. Although her life as a refugee in Botswana was full of crises and upheavals, her creative energy was released by her adopted country and she produced stories and novels - such as Where Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, A Question of Power - that won her an international reputation.".
- catalog description "Bessie Head - Thunder Behind Her Ears is an engrossing biography of the turbulent life of one of Africa's great writers, whose reputation is growing by the year. It describes with insight the driving force of Bessie's writing talent, her fiery personality and her often grinding circumstances.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [304]-308) and index.".
- catalog extent "312 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Bessie Head.".
- catalog identifier "0435089846 (US : Heinemann)".
- catalog identifier "0852555350".
- catalog identifier "0864862792 (South Africa : David Philip)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Bessie Head.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in African literature. New series".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in African literature.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; London : J. Currey ; Cape Town : D. Philip,".
- catalog relation "Bessie Head.".
- catalog subject "823 20".
- catalog subject "Botswana".
- catalog subject "English fiction".
- catalog subject "Head, Bessie, 1937-1986.".
- catalog subject "PR9369.3.H4 Z64 1996".
- catalog subject "Women authors, South African 20th century Biography.".
- catalog title "Bessie Head : thunder behind her ears : her life and writing / Gillian Stead Eilersen.".
- catalog type "text".