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A Man Cannot Cry
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SOLVED. Main character is a white doctor who goes to Africa or Sth Africa. His name is Boy, falls in love with blind girl, they have a baby boy. He ends up sick and dies at the hands of his father who tries to save him. [s]
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Boy! by
Ferdinand Oyono - 1970 - Snippet view - More editions
At six o'clock the African doctor came back. This time the white doctor and Gullet were with him. They pulled back the blankets while the African doctor explained. He said that I must have a broken rib which had perforated my bronchia.
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Kirkus Reviews - Volume 52, Issues 19-24 - Page 1159
1984 - Snippet view - More editions
But Than, dubbed "the Boy" by Mission leader Matthew Tomlinson, wins over the local chiefs, starts a chain of bush clinics, and ... daughter of the American Ambassador, who blackmails Than into marrying her; and dear, blind Jennifer—who bears Than a son, Luke. ... As for Africans and their politics, Keverne— raised in Northern Rhodesia— refers to the ... Than, the Great White Doctor, does go native at one point to learn witch doctor lore; and there's a frenzied pilgrimage to a wise ...
"But Than, dubbed "the Boy" by Mission leader Matthew Tomlinson, wins over the local chiefs, starts a chain of bush clinics, and" kirkus
A MAN CANNOT CRY
By Gloria Keverne
KIRKUS REVIEW
A large, enervating, preachy tale--about the macho-man adventures of a young American doctor in a Northern Rhodesian Quaker mission from 1958 to 1964. Arriving in Rhodesia too late to see his dying father after many years, Than Profane shocks the Quakers--mean-spirited twits all--by avoiding religion. . . and by going about his good works in shorts and a Stetson, trailed by a pet leopard. But Than, dubbed ""the Boy"" by Mission leader Matthew Tomlinson, wins over the local chiefs, starts a chain of bush clinics, and performs clever operations with limited equipment. Moreover, Than leaps into noisy sex (snarls, grunts, animal cries) with a variety of female dodos: the loose ladies of Salisbury; Suzannah, the imbecilic daughter of the American Ambassador, who blackmails Than into marrying her; and dear, blind Jennifer--who bears Than a son, Luke. (Later little Luke will die, but not because of Than's use of him to demonstrate vaccination to the natives.) As for Africans and their politics, Keverne--raised in Northern Rhodesia--refers to the ""impressionable"" natives, to the ""inexorable African mind,"" to nationalistic 1960s violence as ""avenging racism, as the whites had never known it or shown it."" Than, the Great White Doctor, does go native atone point to learn witch doctor lore; and there's a frenzied pilgrimage to a wise one who unfortunately dies before Than can hear what he's come for. (""Tell me now! The secret! The cure for cancer!"") But, while the scenery is often compelling and convincing, Keverne's evocation of the Lumumba/Tshombe period is unpersuasively shrill. And hero Than--an unintentionally funny mirror-version of old Ruark denting-doers, ""a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Tarzan of the apes""--cannot be taken seriously.
Pub Date:Feb. 28th, 1984
Publisher:Morrow
Two cover images.
According to worldcat it was first published 1985.
A Man Cannot Cry - that's it. Thank you soooooooooo much. YOU'RE A STAR!
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Boy marries a spoilt, rich, white girl but is drawn to the blind girl, who belongs to a religious group like Amish or something like that.