Cousins: A Memoir By Athol Fugard
Inscribed, dedicated and Signed by Athol Fugard.
Cousins: A Memoir By Athol Fugard
Hardcover
ISBN 1868142787
Publisher: Witwatersrand University Press 1994
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The Dust
Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover. Inscribed and Signed by Author.
In this remarkable memoir, Athol Fugard, author of The Road to Mecca, A Lesson From Aloes, Master Harold...and the boys, Valley Song and numerous other works for the stage, paints a moving study of his early years in South Africa. Cousins focuses on Fugard's relationship with his two cousins and their impact, which led the author to a lifelong pursuit of a writing career.
This work, the first of a projected four-volume memoir, is the story of the author's relationship with two cousins - Johnny and Garth. It explores the influences of these two very different people on the author as he grew up in Port Elizabeth. It also describes Fugard's parents and his experiences in the Jubilee Residential Hotel run by his mother in the early 1940s. from its earliest days and have shaped the direction and nature of his work.
