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Too Late the Phalarope is the second novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing Cry, the Beloved Country. It was published in 1953, and was the last novel he published before Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful in 1981.
Too Late the Phalarope offers a devastating look into human brokenness, confession, and ultimately a failure of redemption. How many of us have secret selves? How many of us struggle to share those selves with others and fail?
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A novel by Alan Paton about a police officer who breaks the apartheid laws and falls in love with a black woman. The phalarope is a bird that symbolizes his dilemma and his fate.
A novel by Alan Paton about Pieter, a police officer who falls in love with a black woman in apartheid South Africa. The novel explores Pieter's guilt, shame, and downfall as he defies the racist laws and social norms of his society.
Dive deep into Alan Paton's Too Late the Phalarope with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Jan 3, 1996 · by Alan Paton (Author) 96. See all formats and editions. From the author of Cry, The Beloved Country comes a powerful novel of terror and remorse “written in exquisitely balanced prose” (Chicago Sun-Times) about a white policeman who has an affair with a native girl in South Africa.
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Alan Paton. Scribner, 1953 - Fiction - 276 pages. The story of a young white South African police lieutenant, idolized in his Afrikaner community, who violates...
