Bryce Courtenay
Born
in Johannesburg, South Africa
August 14, 1933
Died
November 22, 2012
Website
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The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)
131 editions
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1989
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Tandia (The Power of One, #2)
46 editions
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1992
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Jessica
33 editions
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1998
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The Potato Factory (The Potato Factory, #1)
36 editions
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1995
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April Fool's Day
32 editions
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1993
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Tommo and Hawk (The Potato Factory, #2)
32 editions
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1998
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Solomon's Song (The Potato Factory, #3)
8 editions
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1999
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The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree, #1)
22 editions
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2007
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Four Fires
28 editions
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2001
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Matthew Flinders' Cat
27 editions
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2002
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“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.”
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“Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow, and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky. The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous. Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.”
― The Power of One
― The Power of One
Polls
November 2019 New School Poll
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 1951, 160 pages
Stoner by John Williams, 1965, 278 pages
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler, 1985, 352 pages
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, 1994, 324 pages
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, 1980, 219 pages
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 1989, 518 pages
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