Add this copy of Black Swan (Harper Short Novel Series) to cart. $7.00, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Harpercollins.
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New York. 1987. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060158468. 127 pages. hardcover. Jacket & inside illustrations by Gillian Barlow. keywords: Literature South Africa. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Swan Lake is brought to the surreal landscape of a South African township in this darkly lyrical tale of two innocents: a young German woman and a black youth named Lucky. The time is 1965, but Lucky's superstitious grandmother still believes he's been touched by witchcraft, for Lucky is a mimic who talks in voices he's heard on the radio, a dreamer who escapes his harsh surroundings by letting his mind fly away to the Europe and America of his imagination. When the head of a local clinic manages to convince the old woman to send Lucky to a special school for disturbed adolescents, Lucky is taken in hand by Ilse, who has just fled her own demons in Stuttgart. It is a striking combination: a dreamy black boy of seventeen with the mind of a child and a repressed, naive young German. Ilse, who once dreamed of being a dancer, intuits that the way to reach Lucky is to enter his fantasies, and in an extraordinary scene Lucky is transported by a film she shows him of the ballet. It is the beginning of a catastrophic odyssey for each of them that takes Lucky away from his township, out of his home country altogether, and into a guerrilla training camp in East Germany before he is returned to face what awaits him on the Highveld. But through it all Lucky carries with him a special dream of freedom, one that scandalizes the township and outrages the authorities-a vision of a place where anyone may become a swan, and death itself is outdanced. inventory #13146.
Add this copy of Black Swan to cart. $15.00, like new condition, Sold by Mark Post Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Harper & Row.
Add this copy of Black Swan (Harper Short Novel Series) to cart. $26.90, good condition, Sold by Robinson Street Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Binghamton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Harpercollins.
Add this copy of Black Swan (Harper Short Novel Series) to cart. $32.05, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Harpercollins.