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Frankie and Stankie
by Trapido, Barbara
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 074756034X
- ISBN 13
- 9780747560340
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, a small faded strip at bottom edge of front panel of same, minor bumping to spine ends of black boards, some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel. Signed by the author on title page. 307pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch break. 'Would you rather have a native girl or a koelie to make your sandwiches?' a first-year classmate asks. But Dinah doesn't know the answer, because it's her dad who makes her sandwiches. As the apparatus of repression rolls on, Dinah finds her own way. As we follow her journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into one of the darker passages of twentieth-century history.
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Details
- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010773
- Title
- Frankie and Stankie
- Author
- Trapido, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 074756034X
- ISBN 13
- 9780747560340
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Signed-copy, novels-set-in-South-Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Signed & Association Copies;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney
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