A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings (African Writers Series)

By Bessie Head

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435905783
• ISBN13: 9780435905781
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"