| Sons and Daughters: The Eighties Contributor(s): Stevens, Pat (Author) |
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ISBN: 1466229039 ISBN-13: 9781466229037 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2011 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 8" (0.97 lbs) 446 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Sons and Daughters introduces you to bleak Robber Island where terrorist Peter Khumalo has been incarcerated, but life must go on for the rest of the Pack, because there are now sons and daughters to be raised. Hofmeyr grapples fiercely with technical problems at Hospital Hill, while Rupertheimer battles with the fanatical Green Freaks, but Nick Jarvis experiences Marital Blues when his wife has an affair with journalist Thorn Thompson. Then in 1988 Peter Khumalo is released from prison, so he joins the Rupertheimer corporation as a labour lawyer, which he comes to regret when Rupertheimer involves him in Labour Pains. Once again our hero Rupertheimer is overtaken by bizarre events, inexorably he is being shaped for the historic role he is destined to play, in the fast-approaching nineties transition. People still ponder the 'miracle' 1994 democratic elections, how on earth did South Africans manage to achieve their historic transition, considering the pathetic quality of the press in that country. The Pat Stevens novels explain how these 'miracles' are arranged, Rupertheimer's many epic battles with the liberal press demonstrate the remarkable prescience, he would one day employ to guide his country to an embryonic democracy. First was the fierce skirmish with environmental journalist Dick Clott and his rabid Greenfreaks, then came the chase around the construction site by enraged COSUDSA unionists, organised by Liberal Times editor Thorn Thompson. Superb training for the tremendous task that lay before Rupertheimer, his date with destiny would shortly arrive for the Greatest Game series now moves onto The Nineties, this is described in the follow up book Democratic Dawn. The last of the four-book anthology covering four decades, packed with high adventure and pulsing excitement, set against the background of a transforming South Africa. |