Ways of Staying
A Memoir
Published on 1. March 2010
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224 pages
978-1-77010-123-4 (ISBN)
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Description
When his cousin was killed in a vicious random attack, the questions Kevin Bloom had been asking as a journalist about the troubling political and social changes in this country took on a devastating personal urgency. Suddenly it felt as though South Africa was no longer the place he had grown up in or the place that felt like home. At times brutal and raw, at times tender and compassionate, Ways of staying is Bloom's critically acclaimed exploration of the violence that characterises the country he lives in, and of how South Africans adjust their lives in order to continue living here. From his cousin's murder in 2006 to the fatal shooting of historian David Rattray, and from the ANC showdown in Polokwane to the xenophobic attacks of winter 2008, Bloom takes the reader on a profoundly moving journey of the heart and mind; a journey that also finds hope in those men and women who believe that South Africa's history can be overcome to create a kinder future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Johannesburg
South Africa
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan South Africa
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-77010-123-4 (9781770101234)
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Kevin Bloom is an award-winning south african journalist, editor and author who has written for many south african and international publications, and is a regular contributor to the daily maverick (www.thedailymaverick.co.za). Ways of staying was shortlisted for the 2010 alan paton award, africa's most prestigious non-fiction prize, and has been published in the united kingdom (by portobello books) and in canada (by house of anansi press).