Amid the Alien Corn
A Son’s Memoir
$44.53
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
28 June 2025
Summary
Amid the Alien Corn is a vivid, stylishly written memoir that takes its narrator from the bewilderment of childhood and youth towards the unfolding of a mother’s secrets, long suspected from a pervasive sense of something missing at the heart of his family.
The book charts the journey from personal and political disorientation in apartheid Cape Town to professional fulfilment in Britain, where the discovery of an identity framed by the author’s commitment to literary …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836283157 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1836283156 |
| Author: | Dennis Walder |
| Publisher: | Troubador Publishing |
| Imprint: | Troubador Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Dennis Walder
Dennis Walder is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the Open University. He has published widely on 19th and 20th century literature, including the best-selling Literature in the Modern World. His other books include Dickens and Religion, Athol Fugard and Postcolonial Nostalgias. One of his short stories was runner-up for the V. S. Pritchett Prize. Originally from South Africa he now lives in North London.
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