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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Cast the First Stone
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Cast the First Stone is a novel set in South Africa between 1949 and 1963, a period during which the brutal system of apartheid was devised and cultivated....The story is about an English-speaking journalist, Peter Stanley, working in the repressive, often violent racial environment of the country. He is married to an Afrikaner, which also means living with ethnic divisions within the family. ... The novel's main character, Peter Stanley, is a composite based on my father, Ernest Shirley, and most of the other characters are composites based on my family, my father's colleagues and acquaintances. (pp.1-3).

Notes

  • Dedication: For my wife Joyce who gave so much.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Balmain, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Pentimento , 1994 .
      Extent: 483p.
      Note/s:
      • Author's note (pp.1-3).
      • Bibliography: 482-483.
      ISBN: 0646193295

Works about this Work

Freshness in a Dinosaur World Tony Baker , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 26 November 1994; (p. 11)

— Review of Cast the First Stone Michael Shirley , 1994 single work novel
Freshness in a Dinosaur World Tony Baker , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 26 November 1994; (p. 11)

— Review of Cast the First Stone Michael Shirley , 1994 single work novel
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