The avocado pear tree

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dc.contributor.authorCase, Bonitaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-07T17:48:35Z
dc.date.available2016-11-07T17:48:35Z
dc.date.issued1999en_ZA
dc.description.abstractFor twenty years Elsie September has refused to visit her uncle, Hannie, a state patient at Valkenberg mental hospital. At her grandmother's insistence, she almost goes to see him one day, but she only gets as far as the building and cannot bring herself to go inside. Instead, she meets Shaun and, as a relationship develops, Elsie begins to tell him the stories of her childhood. But Elsie's relationship with Shaun is troubled and unbalanced. Before Elsie reaches the point in her narrative where she will explain why she refuses to see her uncle, she and Shaun part acrimoniously and he disappears. Elsie has, by now, become so caught up in the telling of her story that not even Shaun's disappearance can stop her from going back to the day her world changed beneath the sheltering arms of the avocado pear tree.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationCase, B. (1999). <i>The avocado pear tree</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22438en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationCase, Bonita. <i>"The avocado pear tree."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22438en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCase, B. 1999. The avocado pear tree. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Case, Bonita AB - For twenty years Elsie September has refused to visit her uncle, Hannie, a state patient at Valkenberg mental hospital. At her grandmother's insistence, she almost goes to see him one day, but she only gets as far as the building and cannot bring herself to go inside. Instead, she meets Shaun and, as a relationship develops, Elsie begins to tell him the stories of her childhood. But Elsie's relationship with Shaun is troubled and unbalanced. Before Elsie reaches the point in her narrative where she will explain why she refuses to see her uncle, she and Shaun part acrimoniously and he disappears. Elsie has, by now, become so caught up in the telling of her story that not even Shaun's disappearance can stop her from going back to the day her world changed beneath the sheltering arms of the avocado pear tree. DA - 1999 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1999 T1 - The avocado pear tree TI - The avocado pear tree UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22438 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/22438
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationCase B. The avocado pear tree. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1999 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22438en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherCreative Writingen_ZA
dc.titleThe avocado pear treeen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMAen_ZA
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