Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press, 2007.
281-2, 285-6
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Friends, Associates | Bessie Head | The publication of her first book added to the list of her epistolary friends: Giles Gordon
, her editor at |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Head | Her friendships with Giles Gordon
and Paddy Kitchen
each crashed in flames for reasons connected with BH
's writing (publishing negotiations or opinions expressed), but each was joyfully restored in 1980-1. Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press, 2007. 281-2, 285-6 |
Literary responses | Bessie Head | |
Literary responses | Bessie Head | Paddy Kitchen
wrote a glowing personal response, noting how her reading of Head's presentation of South African history was juxtaposed in counterpoint with daily television footage of present-day South African riots and killings, and how... |
Reception | Bessie Head | The same TLS reviewer as before praised most of the characters, and touches of detail both comic and otherwise, but felt the central story was too often obscured by a wilful invocation of the arcane... |
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