Download or read book My Life and Valley Song written by Athol Fugard and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life is based on the diaries of five South African girls who were growing into womanhood in 1994. The perspective of each young woman on her country and her people is conveyed with a mixture of naivety, exuberance, warmth and humour. A small Karoo town provides the setting for Valley Song, which explores the theme of youth in search of itself, and provides a lyrical metaphor for the new South Africa in which it was set, and has been termed one of Fugard’s most endearing plays.