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Stealing Water
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Artikel-Nr:
9780340936641
Veröffentl:
2009
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Tim Ecott
Gewicht:
220 g
Format:
200x160x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Tim Ecott is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He was the script-writer for the much-acclaimed film, Deep Blue , and has written three books: Neutral Buoyancy , Vanilla and Stealing Water . Tim lives in the UK with his wife and two children.Tim Ecott is a journalist and a writer. Initially specialising in Africa for the BBC World Service, he now writes for a wide range of publications including the Economist , the Guardian and Conde Nast Traveller .
A very different memoir about growing up in South Africa.
'Funny, never self-pitying and a pleasure to read' - GUARDIAN
'[An] affectionate, generous book' - IRISH TIMES
'Both haunting and funny. [Ecott] writes with compassion and honesty to give us a truly memorable account of an extraordinary upbringing' - Fergal Keane
'Unputdownable - never sentimental, extremely honest and with a positively Dickensian cast of characters' - Emma Thompson
'Funny, never self-pitying and a pleasure to read' - GUARDIAN
'[An] affectionate, generous book' - IRISH TIMES
'Both haunting and funny. [Ecott] writes with compassion and honesty to give us a truly memorable account of an extraordinary upbringing' - Fergal Keane
'Unputdownable - never sentimental, extremely honest and with a positively Dickensian cast of characters' - Emma Thompson
'STEALING WATER is a simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of poor-white family life in the twilight of apartheid' - Richard E. Grant