The complete Voorkamer stories
By: Herman Charles Bosman ; edited by Craig Mackenzie ; with a Bushveld portfolio by David Goldblatt
Contributors: MacKenzie, Craig, 1960-; Goldblatt, David
Publisher: Human & Rosseau
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Kaapstad
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780798152983; 9780978155953
Subjects: Social life and customs; Short stories, South African (English); Fiction
Description: 'For the first time in one volume, the complete sequence of Bosman's "In die Voorkamer" sketches. Published to a weekly deadline over 1950 - 51 as hilarious satires of the issues of the day ... These deft conversation pieces, set in Jurie Steyn's backveld Marico post office, raise the art of idle talk to a level unequalled in South African humour.'--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- The; title: budget -- -- A; title: Bekkersdal marathon --; title: Psycho-analysis --; title: Secret agent --; title: Bull-calf --; title: Local colour --; title: Ghost trouble --; title: Oom Tobie's sickness --; title: News story --; title: School concert --; title: Railway deputation --; title: White ant --; title: Piet Siener --; title: Potchefstroom willow --; title: Sea-colonels all --; title: Idle talk --; title: Birth certificate --; title: Play within a play --; title: Springtime in Marico -- -- The; title: coffee that tasted like tar --; title: Stars in their courses --; title: Green-eyed monster --; title: Casual conversation -- -- The; title: call of the road --; title: Lath and plaster --; title: Do professors smoke dagga? --; title: Art criticism --; title: Part of a story --; title: Home from finishing-school --; title: Singular events --; title: Young man in love --; title: Dreams of rain --; title: Ill-informed criticism --; title: Toys in the shop window --; title: At this time of year --; title: New-year glad rags --; title: Go-slow strike --; title: Black magic --; title: Laugh, clown, laugh --; title: Anxious to hear --; title: Day of wrath --; title: Language of flowers --; title: Divinity student --; title: Sleepy afternoon --; title: Alarm clock --; title: Circumstantial evidence --; title: Literary giants --; title: Alcoholic remorse -- -- The; title: terror of the Molopo --; title: Border bad man --; title: Kith and kin --; title: Rolled gold --; title: Home town --; title: Monument to a hero --; title: Coffin in the loft --; title: Detective story --; title: Wonder woman of Windhoek -- -- The; title: recluse -- -- The; title: ugly tale of a pretty widow --; title: Eavesdropper --; title: Failing sight --; title: Sixes and sevens --; title: Mental trouble --; title: Man to man --; title: Feat of memory --; title: Easy circumstances --; title: Weather prophet --; title: Lost city --; title: Mother-in-law --; title: Five-pound notes --; title: Forbidden country --; title: At ease on the dung heap --; title: No spoon-feeding --; title: Bekkersdal centenary --; title: Dying race --; title: In the old days --; title: Neighbourly --; title: Marico man --; title: Homecoming.