The Resource The jack bank : a memoir of a South African childhood, Glen Retief
The jack bank : a memoir of a South African childhood, Glen Retief
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 275 pages)
- Label
- The jack bank : a memoir of a South African childhood
- Title
- The jack bank
- Title remainder
- a memoir of a South African childhood
- Statement of responsibility
- Glen Retief
- Subject
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- Retief, Glen -- Childhood and youth
- South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994
- Young gay men -- South Africa -- Biography
- South Africa -- Race relations
- Hazing -- South Africa
- South Africa -- Biography
- Boarding school students -- South Africa -- Conduct of life
- Boarding school students -- South Africa -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Retief, Glen
- Dewey number
- 920.68
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- CT1928.R47
- LC item number
- A3 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Retief, Glen
- Boarding school students
- Boarding school students
- Hazing
- South Africa
- South Africa
- Young gay men
- South Africa
- Label
- The jack bank : a memoir of a South African childhood, Glen Retief
- Link
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 275 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035915531
- Label
- The jack bank : a memoir of a South African childhood, Glen Retief
- Link
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 275 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035915531
Subject
- Boarding school students -- South Africa -- Biography
- Boarding school students -- South Africa -- Conduct of life
- Hazing -- South Africa
- Retief, Glen -- Childhood and youth
- South Africa -- Biography
- South Africa -- Race relations
- South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994
- Young gay men -- South Africa -- Biography
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