{"product_id":"bitter-aloes-stories-from-the-eastern-cape-9780639932613","title":"Bitter Aloes: Stories from the Eastern Cape","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marion Baxter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Imprint\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Imprint\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou would think not much ever happens in the sleepy towns and dusty pineapple valleys of South Mrica's eastern cape, yet look deeper. On shade-dappled farmhouse porches and in the back rooms of rented settler-era cottages in Fort Beaufort, stories unfold every day. Stories of loss, love, betrayal, obsession ... and fish. In the last decades of the 2oth century, author Marion Baxter cut a solitary and eccentric figure in provincial society, whose introspection belied a pen that wouldn't stop writing about the people and places around her. An author is, above all, an observer - and Baxter's writings stand as a high definition showcase of the place and time where she lived out her latter years. Baxter passed away from advanced breast cancer in july 2002, leaving behind a stack of neatly filed manuscripts in her small Rhodes University office. This volume of stories was on the top.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Imprint","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45511345930391,"sku":"9780639932613","price":1337.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780639932613.webp?v=1767109693","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bitter-aloes-stories-from-the-eastern-cape-9780639932613","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}