Bryce Courtenay

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Bryce Courtenay


Born
in Johannesburg, South Africa
August 14, 1933

Died
November 22, 2012

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Arthur Bryce Courtenay, AM was a South African-Australian advertising director and novelist. He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One. ...more

Average rating: 4.22 · 187,533 ratings · 11,754 reviews · 57 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Power of One (The Power...

4.36 avg rating — 93,703 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions
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Tandia (The Power of One, #2)

4.10 avg rating — 12,142 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Jessica

4.26 avg rating — 11,635 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
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The Potato Factory (The Pot...

4.15 avg rating — 11,193 ratings — published 1995 — 38 editions
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April Fool's Day

4.21 avg rating — 8,918 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions
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Tommo & Hawk (The Potato Fa...

4.10 avg rating — 7,755 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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Solomon's Song (The Potato ...

4.06 avg rating — 5,767 ratings — published 1999 — 34 editions
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The Persimmon Tree (The Per...

4.06 avg rating — 5,220 ratings — published 2007 — 26 editions
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Four Fires

4.28 avg rating — 4,928 ratings — published 2001 — 29 editions
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Matthew Flinders' Cat

3.87 avg rating — 3,915 ratings — published 2002 — 27 editions
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Quotes by Bryce Courtenay  (?)
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“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.”
Bryce Courtenay

“First with the head, then with the heart.”
Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

“Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow, and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky. The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous. Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.”
Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

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April 2024 New School Classic Group Read Poll

 
  48 votes, 26.4%

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck, 1954, 249 pages
 
  45 votes, 24.7%

True Grit by Charles Portis, 1968, 224 pages
 
  25 votes, 13.7%

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, 1970, 103 pages
 
  23 votes, 12.6%

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, 1940 216 pages
 
  20 votes, 11.0%

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, 1956, 501 pages
 
  17 votes, 9.3%

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 1989, 518 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.2%

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