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02305aam a2200325 i 4500 001 3C930A5CE67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240320010038 008 231124s2023 sa 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1776391241 020 $a 9781776391240 035 $a (OCoLC)1410508729 040 $a OI@ $b eng $e rda $c OI@ $d NDD $d EMU $d GZM $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h afr 050 4 $a PN5476.L38 $b A313 2023 100 1 $a Lategan, Herman, $e author. 240 10 $a Hoerkind. $l English. 245 10 $a Son of a whore : $b a memoir / $c Herman Lategan. 264 1 $a Cape Town : $b Penguin Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 241 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "After the runaway success of his Afrikaans memoir, Hoerkind, the contrarian journalist and writer Herman Lategan translated and updated his eventful life story to include material that did not appear in the original book. Herman was conceived illegitimately one warm February night in 1964 in a boarding house in Cape Town. From an early age, he felt disposable, passed from one pair of unstable adult hands to the next, even ending up in an orphanage for a while. At thirteen he was caught in the web of a cunning paedophile, a well-known Afrikaans newspaperman. Shortly after his eighteenth birthday, when his abuser had finished with him, Herman was unceremoniously dumped at the door of his alcoholic father. Conscription into the army and a dishonourable discharge followed. During his teenage years, Herman befriended poets like Sheila Cussons, Tatamkhulu Afrika and Casper Schmidt, and later, in New York, he followed Andy Warhol in the street and partied with a 'smorgasbord of social butterflies'. Back in South Africa, Herman established himself as a journalist, but struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, and was homeless for a while. For many an employer, he became the nightmare they feared most." 546 $a Translated from the original Afrikaans. 600 10 $a Lategan, Herman. 650 0 $a Journalists $z South Africa $v Biography. 650 0 $a Abused children $z South Africa $v Biography. 650 0 $a Drug addicts $z South Africa $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320011429.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3C930A5CE67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search