The echo of a noise : a memoir of then and now

This is Pieter-Dirk Uys unpowdered. No props, no false eyelashes, no high heels ... '. South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys has been on stage over 7 000 times. In this funny and tender memoir, Uys reveals the person behind the persona. We meet his forbidding, musically driven Afrikaner father, hi...

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Main Author: Uys, Pieter-Dirk, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cape Town : Tafelberg, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary: This is Pieter-Dirk Uys unpowdered. No props, no false eyelashes, no high heels ... '. South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys has been on stage over 7 000 times. In this funny and tender memoir, Uys reveals the person behind the persona. We meet his forbidding, musically driven Afrikaner father, his brilliant but troubled mother, and Sannie Abader, his Cape Flats ma who raised him in Pinelands, Cape Town. Filled with photographs from the family album and 40 years of satire, The Echo of a Noise also features Pieter's Paarlse ouma, his strudel-baking German Oma, his devotion to Sophia Loren, the invention of Evita Bezuidenhout, and the joys and sorrows of a remarkable life.
Physical Description: 192 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780624086918
0624086917