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Learning to Fly

Name: Learning to Fly
Rating: 3.5 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780749390433

Christopher Hope

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192 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1990

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About the author

He studied at universities of Witwatersrand and Natal. He is an author of poems and novels, also published autobiography, biography of Robert Mugabe, dictator of Zimbabwe, and travel book Moscow! Moscow!, which he got prestige PEN Award. Debut novel A Separate Development (1981), satire on apartheid system, forbidden in South Africa, got the David Higham Prize for Fiction.

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Maggs

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September 28, 2010

A thought provoking book. Hope wrote this book before Apartheid fell but yet he is able to predict what is likely to happen when the new administration takes over (especially in the story Learning to Fly and Carnation Butterfly). Creepy that a book can accurately predict what is going to happen in the future. Nevertheless, great prose and a great read.