Karoo Morning

Subtitle:: Autobiography 1918-35
Author:: Guy Butler
Format:: Softcover

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Short description

I was given a good life in a lovable world among remarkable people...
Warm evocations of life in a small Karoo town during the 1920s and 30s, as Guy Butler remembers his boyhood in Cradock. Descended from 1820 settler stock and the son of the town’s newspaper editor, he vividly describes boyhood escapades and colourful characters. First published in 1977, this first volume of autobiography from one of South Africa’s best-known and most widely admired literary personalities has become a classic.

Kalahari says...

Grande Memoirs of a childhood growing up in Big Sky Country, fynbos and karoolamb...

Long description

;I was given a good life in a lovable world among remarkable people.;
Warm evocations of life in a small Karoo town during the 1920s and 30s, as Guy Butler remembers his boyhood in Cradock. Descended from 1820 settler stock and the son of the town’s newspaper editor, he vividly describes boyhood escapades and colourful characters. First published in 1977, this first volume of autobiography from one of South Africa’s best-known and most widely admired literary personalities has become a classic

Product details

Publisher:: David Phillips Publishers
ISBN:: 9780908396535
Publication date:: December 1983
Length:: 230mm
Width:: 160mm
Thickness:: 19mm
Weight:: 400g
Edition:: New edition
Pages:: 280
Illustrations:: 36 pages of illustrations
Readership:: General

Review

Sunday Times:

Opening Karoo morning was like opening a treasure chest … Guy Butler has immeasurably enriched our own memories.

Cape Times:

And what stories! The book owes much of its charm to the consummate storytelling art of its author

Evening Post:

…a supreme example of how to use the English language with vibrancy and excitement … How this [dissension] was resolved …is one of the most moving pieces of writing I have read, anywhere, any time.

Star:

He creates pictures that are as South African as biltong.

Pretoria News:

…few people are blessed with the same degree of recall. …Every moment that comes to mind is made to matter … A poet’s book, beautifully written, honouring its debts.

Rand Daily Mail:

…a book of quite exceptional interest and charm – a minor classic of South African English literature …Nowhere else, I think, has the particular quality of life for English–speaking people in a South African rural environment been distilled with such authenticity and skill.