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A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings

by Bessie Head · 1990

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Journalistic sketches, essays and personal notes form a biographical study of South African born Bessie Head's complex existence. Born in 1937, the result of an illicit union between a black man and a white woman, Bessie spent her early years in South Africa, a period of exile in Botswana (1964-79) and was a Botswana citizen before her death at the age of 49.

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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisAfricaAfricaMore like thisLess of thisBotswanaBotswanaMore like thisLess of thisSouth AfricaSouth AfricaMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 107 pages
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