Skollie: One man?s struggle to survive by telling stories by Fredericks, John

Penguin Random House South Africa, 2017. Softcover. Very Good. The wraps are a little rubbed, edge worn and scuffed in places. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

ISBN: 9781776091997
Penguin Random House South Africa | 18 Feb 2018
Paperback | 264 pages
In 2016 South African film audiences were mesmerized by the film Noem My Skollie, which was written by - and based on the life of - John W. Fredericks. In this book Fredericks tells the full story on which the film was based. Growing up in a dusty township on the Cape Flats, Fredericks formed a gang with his friends, and at the age of seventeen he was arrested for robbery and sentenced to two years in Pollsmoor prison. There the number gangs vied to initiate him into their ranks, but he resisted their advances, offering instead to help them push their time by telling stories. And so he became the prison 'cinema', drawing on his storytelling abilities and cementing his ambition to become a writer. Life after prison became a nightmare when he was arrested for a murder he hadn't committed, his childhood friends were sentenced to die on the gallows, and a gang boss tried to kill him. Slowly he turned his life… Read More