The Distance

by Ivan Vladislavić

Book Overview

From this celebrated South African writer comes a formally inventive, lyrical portrait of childhood, memory, and the art of writing itself.

In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting daily newspaper clippings about him, a passion that grows into an archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks become the foundation for a memoir...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939810760
• ISBN13: 9781939810762
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Archipelago Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 6.9"