Dewar Robert - Nineteen Seventy - Six A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: On the beautiful Cape Peninsular a great house built on the mountainside gazes out on a limitless southern ocean. By 1976 it had become a residential hotel and Richard Channing its proprietor had personal problems more burdensome even than a perennial shortage of funds. Richard was disappointed with life: trapped in a loveless marriage increasingly alienated from his son and unable to see a way forward. But then his distant cousin a lovely young English girl arrives on what becomes a lengthy and extended visit and everything begins to change for Richard. At the same time dramatic events are taking place in South Africa. Only two weeks earlier there occurs a police massacre of black students in Soweto an event which triggers a wave of country - wide marches demonstrations and strikes by members of the black and coloured communities. South Africa is engulfed by unrest and periodic violence - not all of which the residents of the great house on its lonely mountainside are able to avoid. Richard however is in love. And the outcome of this love and the consequences of his lovely young cousin's visit will take many years before they can be fully realised. For the young English girl's visit will cause as dramatic a change in Richard's and his family's lives as the Soweto Youth Uprising will bring about in South Africa's social and political life.
Title: Nineteen Seventy - Six A Novel
Author(s): Dewar Robert
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Barcode: 9781836280132
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 10/3/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction