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Burning bright
Barry Levy

Burning bright

Kwela (2004)
9780795701887
299 pages | 140 x 220 mm | English
Dewey 823/.92
LC Classification PR9369.4.L487 .B87 2004
LC Control No. 2004548250

Genre

  • Domestic fiction
  • Jewish fiction

Subject

  • 823/.92
  • HP 9999
  • Jewish families
  • Jewish families--South Africa--Fiction
  • PR9369.4.L487 B87 2004
  • Teenage boys
  • Teenage boys--South Africa--Fiction

Plot

Danny Rothbart is a good looking, bright, popular teenager in a Jewish community in South Africa in this dark coming-of-age novel. His only problem is a single gloomy secret: he is deeply ashamed of the trouble he is having losing his virginity. Unable to talk with his conservative parents, he turns for advice to his charismatic uncle Harold. Unfortunately, his Uncle is revealed to be a serial child molester who draws a vulnerable Danny into a manipulative and abusive relationship.

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