{"product_id":"9780639932613","title":"Bitter Aloes Stories from the Eastern Cape","description":"You would think not much ever happens in the sleepy towns and dusty pineapple valleys of South Mrica's eastern cape, yet look deeper. On shade-dappled farmhouse porches and in the back rooms of rented settler-era cottages in Fort Beaufort, stories unfold every day. Stories of loss, love, betrayal, obsession ... and fish. In the last decades of the 2oth century, author Marion Baxter cut a solitary and eccentric figure in provincial society, whose introspection belied a pen that wouldn't stop writing about the people and places around her. An author is, above all, an observer - and Baxter's writings stand as a high definition showcase of the place and time where she lived out her latter years. Baxter passed away from advanced breast cancer in july 2002, leaving behind a stack of neatly filed manuscripts in her small Rhodes University office. This volume of stories was on the top.","brand":"Booksite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39357810802803,"sku":"9780639932613","price":266.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/bitter-aloes-marion-baxter-28538489634931.jpg?v=1637192706","url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.co.za\/products\/9780639932613","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}