In the Country of the Black Pig

Hope, C

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 48 pp. Soft  Cover. Book Condition: Binding: Pictorial Card  Wrappers. Near  Fine. Jacket: No Jacket - As  Issued. Octavo. INSCRIBED  BY  AUTHOR. The  inscription reads : "For  Jonathan  Paton, with  all  good  wishes, Christopher  Hope. The  Jonathan  of  the  inscription  was  Jonathan  Paton, the  son  of  Alan  Paton. Jonathan  Paton's  name  and  address  on  the  half-title  page. 
The  following  information  is  taken  from  the  Contemporary  Writers  website.

Christopher  Hope's   poems were first published in Whitewashes (1971), but his first significant publication was Cape Drives (1974), which won the Thomas Pringle Prize and a Cholmondeley Award. His published poetry also includes In the Country of the Black Pig (1981) and Englishmen (1985).                                                                                                                                                                                               His first novel, A Separate Development (1981), was banned in South Africa. A rich, comic satire of the apartheid system, it won the David Higham Prize for Fiction. His other novels include Kruger's Alp (1984), which won the Whitbread Novel Award; The Hottentot Room (1986), set in a London drinking club, a home from home for South African exiles; and My Chocolate Redeemer (1989), the story of an unlikely friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an exiled dictator. More recent novels include Serenity House (1992), a black comedy set in an old people's home in London, shortlisted for the Booker Prize  and  Darkest England (1996).

Details:

  • Publisher: London Magazine Editions
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1981
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
  • Binding Condition: Very Good +
  • Overall Condition: Very Good +
  • Size: Octavo
  • Lot No: 365
  • Hammer Price: $20
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