The Dubious Salvation Of Jack V.

Jacques Strauss

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Vintage
15 May 2012

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Smart, funny, touching and a little dangerous, The Dubious Salvation of Jack V. is a powerful coming-of-age story from an original voice.

It's 1989, and in the dying years of the Apartheid regime, eleven-year-old Jack Viljee considers life to be simple. He has firm views on race (complex), politics (straightforward), poofdas (inoffensive), God (dangerous) and sex (bewildering). The son of an Afrikaans father and an English mother, wedged between a strident older and a favoured younger sister, Jack allies himself with the family's beloved maid, Susie.

But the Viljee household has been upset by the arrival of Percy, Susie's fifteen-year-old son. Percy - young, bored and full of rage - makes everything awkward and embarassing for Jack. After one particularly humiliating event, Jack betrays Susie. The world, it turns out, is not so simple.

By: Jacques Strauss
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 176g
ISBN: 9780099555070
ISBN 10: 0099555077
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 May 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacques Strauss was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. His first book, The Dubious Salvation of Jack V, won the Commonwealth Book Prize, Africa. He lives in London with his partner and works as a freelance writer.

Reviews for The Dubious Salvation Of Jack V.

Very, very funny... It is an utter delight, astute and knowing. Wonderful writing -- Sarah Winman, author of WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT Strauss writes with poise and comic timing. His prose is formal and correct; he establishes a tone of laconic regret yet sustains a striking lightness of touch particularly in passages of dialogue...It is, above all, rich in symbols and subtexts -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times * Smart, charming, funny, highly astute and subtly political. A really terrific read * Douglas Coupland *