The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
I sat there divided. Though my grandfather was visibly shaken by the force of this memory, I felt a bubbly thrill because this was such good stuff, and I remember turning my eyes away from his distressed face to make sure the wheels of the dictaphone were still turning.
When Daniel is tasked with writing the biography of his grandfather, Jules Browde – one of South Africa’s most celebrated advocates – he sharpens his pencils and gets to work. But the task that at first seems so simple comes to overwhelm him. As the book recedes – month after month, year after year – he must face the possibility of disappointing his grandfather, whose legacy now rests uncomfortably in his hands.
Daniel’s troubled progress stands in contrast to the clear-edged tales his grandfather tells him. Spanning almost a century, they compellingly conjure other worlds: the streets of 1920s Yeoville, the battlefields of the Second World War, the courtrooms of apartheid South Africa.
The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde is more than the portrait of an unusual South African life, it is the moving tale of a complex and tender relationship between grandfather and grandson, and an exploration of how we are made and unmade in the stories we tell about our lives.
Related to The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde
Related ebooks
The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAin't Nothin' But a Stranger in This World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Smith's Monthly #10: Smith's Monthly, #10 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Woman on the Train: Love and War, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummer Rain: An Inspector Banks Short Story Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Knottspeed: A Love Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings3 Day Nightmare Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJottings: Flights of Fancy from Our Betty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Exquisite: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dizzy's joie de vivre Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Chamber of Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bill from My Father: A Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Stories of Richard Bausch Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Living Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Martins Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Specimen Case Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Long Corner Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Chamber of Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Beholder “A Rediscovery of Life and Love” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlp Station Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5OR Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Usual Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Laugh Me Broken Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMoonshineland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last Piece Missing: Ghost Hunters Mystery Parables Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Biography & Memoir For You
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diary of a Young Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mommie Dearest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Rediscovered Books): A Triumph Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy League Counterfeiter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jack Reacher Reading Order: The Complete Lee Child’s Reading List Of Jack Reacher Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5People, Places, Things: My Human Landmarks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Taste: My Life Through Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Eating Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde
0 ratings0 reviews