Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood
by Slaughter, Carolyn
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375413979
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413971
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About This Item
Knopf. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0375413979 . 18 oz.; 222 pages; New HC w/DJ front cover faint water spot o/w new. When this memoirist's family moved from England to the Kalahari Desert in Africa, she embraced the splendor and violence of the natural landscape. But when family life turned violent in its own way, she turned to the landscape to help her face the emotional turmoil. .
Synopsis
Carolyn Slaughter was born in New Delhi, India, and spent most of her childhood in the Kalahari Desert of what is now Botswana. Soon after leaving Africa in 1961, she wrote what would later become her highly acclaimed novel Dreams of the Kalahari . She followed this with eight more novels. After living for many years in London, she moved to the United States with her family in 1986.
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- Bookseller
- Mistymornin Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21577
- Title
- Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood
- Author
- Slaughter, Carolyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375413979
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413971
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0375413979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs / Other;
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