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Crossing the Line

A Year in the Land of Apartheid

Crossing the Line( )
Author: Finnegan, William
Introduction by: Gourevitch, Philip
ISBN:978-0-89255-325-9
Publication Date:Oct 2006
Publisher:Persea Books, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $20.00
Book Description:

The award-winning debut by the acclaimed author of Cold New World.



Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africaan account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious charms of its prose.

Book Details
Pages:464
Detailed Subjects: Education / Schools / Levels / Secondary
Social Science / Discrimination
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.4 x 8.3 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:1.135 Pounds
Author Biography
Finnegan, William (Author)
William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987 and won two Overseas Press Club awards since 2009. He has written several books including Cold New World, A Complicated War, Dateline Soweto, and Crossing the Line. In 2016, he won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.

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