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Author Retief, Glen.

Title The jack bank : a memoir of a South African childhood / Glen Retief.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B RETIEF    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 RETIEF, GLE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 275 pages ; 25 cm
Summary Glen Retief's childhood was at once recognizably ordinary and brutally unusual. Raised in the middle of a game preserve where his father worked, Retief's warm nuclear family was a preserve of its own, against chaotic forces just outside its borders: a childhood friend's uncle was also the leader of a death squad, while his cultured grandfather quoted Shakespeare over sodas and abused Glen's sister in his antique Victorian living room. But it was when Retief was sent to boarding school, at age twelve, that he was truly exposed to human cruelty and frailty. When the prefects were caught torturing younger boys, they invented "the jack bank," where underclassmen could save beatings and draw on them later to atone for their supposed infractions.
Subject Retief, Glen -- Childhood and youth.
Boarding school students -- South Africa -- Biography.
Boarding school students -- South Africa -- Conduct of life.
Hazing -- South Africa.
South Africa -- Race relations.
South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994.
Young gay men -- South Africa -- Biography.
South Africa -- Biography.
ISBN 0312590938
9780312590932: $24.99
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