Time And Time Again: Autobiographies

The Story

"A memoir by one of South Africa's leading expatriate writers, this episodic autobiography has the incandescence of V.S. Pritchett's Cab at the Door. Its first half is set in South Africa and deals with the relations between Jacobson's family, refugee Jews from Lithuania, and the blacks and Afrikaners of Kimberley, the great diamond mining town where he grew up. The second half recounts his expatriation to London in the 1950s. Here we learn in painful, passionate detail of his arrival in that great city of loneliness, of finding his friends, a wife, the profession of writing. He also learns to understand what it means to be a colonial, someone with a country but without a home."--Provided by publisher.

A hardcover edition from 1985 of Time And Time Again by Dan Jacobson. It runs to 213 pages, in very good condition. We hold one copy, so once it is gone it is gone. Shelved under Biography & Memoir. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.