Home Ground is the story of a theatrical family in a small South African town and "a revealing portrayal of an adolescent struggling to find her place in an unaccommodating world".--Village Voice.
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For protagonist Ruth Frank, home ground is a small town in South Africa in the 1950s, where her family occupies a doubly alienated positionas Jews in gentile society and whites in an overwhelmingly black country. PW noted that Freed is "perceptive" in her dialogue and depictions of characters.
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Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Freed made a big splash with this novel, which was selected by the New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year, andAmore importantlyAwas dubbed a "warm, well-constructed novel" by LJ's reviewer. The plot follows the coming of age of protagonist Ruth Frank, a Jewish girl growing up in South Africa, who must deal with her own budding sexuality as well as the antagonistic relationship between the races.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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LYNN FREED was awarded the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award for fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the author of six novels, a short story collection, and a collection of essays.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Interesting portrayal of South Africa during apartheid,
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An interesting glimpse into the lives of a Jewish family in Capetown, South Africa during apartheid. The family relationships were beautifully portrayed.
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I heart Lynn Freed.,
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I saw Ms. Freed do a reading and I just had to get some of her books. Home Ground showcases her warm, witty voice. This is an engrossing story of girlhood and coming-of-age with a heroine who's a bit of a holy terror. A very good read.
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Autobiography from a fascinating novelist,
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Lynn Freed offers a portrait of growing up in privileged South Africa in Home Ground.
This is a loving and merciless view of a theater family made up of three parts histrionic narcissists, two parts evaders, and one part Lynn. Freed is also merciless concerning her own abuses of power in South Africa as a child, the lines she thoughtlessly steps over to explore and satisfy her drives. No excuses, just the events, leaving the reader to draw her own conclusions about the "why." The lack of justification or complaint is refreshing in a memoir. Freed creates very real people for her readers, but just as real is her gift for conveying beautiful, exotic settings in all their fullness; the clothes, furnishings, the light, what grows outside a window, the sounds that drift in that same window. Recommended especially for fans of Freed's novels, who will appreciate the insight into the politics of race, colonialism and gender that fuel her fiction.
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To a child, nothing that is familiar in her world - not earthquakes or revolutions, slavery or sodomy, poverty or riches - seems either exotic or wicked. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mother boomed, laundry lawn, school debating team, mother beamed, mother sighed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Robinson, Ruth Frank, Hedda Gabler, Miss Harding, Sarah Frank, Miss Ruth, Uncle Leon, Bernard Rubenstein, Edwina Sloane, King George, Miss Hopswith, Arthur Slomovitz, Ettie Goldman, Lux Radio Theatre, Miss Powers, Miss Stit, Mother Superior, Simon Mngoma, Sydney Carton, Umgeni Bush New!
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To a child, nothing that is familiar in her world - not earthquakes or revolutions, slavery or sodomy, poverty or riches - seems either exotic or wicked. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mother boomed, laundry lawn, school debating team, mother beamed, mother sighed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Robinson, Ruth Frank, Hedda Gabler, Miss Harding, Sarah Frank, Miss Ruth, Uncle Leon, Bernard Rubenstein, Edwina Sloane, King George, Miss Hopswith, Arthur Slomovitz, Ettie Goldman, Lux Radio Theatre, Miss Powers, Miss Stit, Mother Superior, Simon Mngoma, Sydney Carton, Umgeni Bush New!
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- Conversations with American Women Writers by Sarah Anne Johnson on page 77, page 84, and Back Matter
- House of Women: A Novel by Lynn Freed in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page by Lynn Freed in Front Matter
- The Mirror (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Lynn Freed in Back Matter
- What to Read: The Essential Guide for Reading Group Members and Other Book Lovers by Mickey Pearlman on page 140
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