Annie Firman is growing up in Johannesburg in race-segregated South Africa, in an affluent white suburb and a local girls' boardingschool. She and her friend Barbara long to be initiated into the mysteries of adult life, above all to taste the forbidden fruit of sexual love. Annie falls heavily for a pretentious young man, a photographer who draws her on but finally lets her down. Bitterly disappointed, she consoles herself by making love, against the law, to a "coloured" boy of her own age. She feels she needs to take care ...
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Annie Firman is growing up in Johannesburg in race-segregated South Africa, in an affluent white suburb and a local girls' boardingschool. She and her friend Barbara long to be initiated into the mysteries of adult life, above all to taste the forbidden fruit of sexual love. Annie falls heavily for a pretentious young man, a photographer who draws her on but finally lets her down. Bitterly disappointed, she consoles herself by making love, against the law, to a "coloured" boy of her own age. She feels she needs to take care of him - and can order him to do her will. The writing is comic and lightly satirical, but for all the simplicity of the story, this is a profoundly moral and challenging novel.
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Add this copy of The Virgins to cart. $19.05, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2019 by Gothenburg Books.
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Fair. Size: 0x0x0; From the collection of Ex-library with their stamp marks on the block of the book and on the last page, as well as within the body of the book. Publication of 160 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and scuffed marks on the inner cover. There is foxing on the first and last pages, little within the body of the book. The text remains legible. The binding is strong. GK.
Add this copy of The Virgins to cart. $34.01, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Gothenburg Books.
Add this copy of The Virgins to cart. $46.01, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Gothenburg Books.
