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Name: Too late the phalarope
Author: Alan Paton

Too Late the Phalarope follows a young white police lieutenant who, celebrated in his community, transgresses apartheid’s rigorous statutes governing relationships between white and black individuals. Struggling alone with guilt and the unforgiving scrutiny of a society that will not forgive his transgression, he faces the emotional turbulence of conscience, duty and social law.

First publish date: January 1950

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: Alan Paton

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