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Summary: From www.bloomsbury.com: Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gardners Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORGordimer, Nadine.
Summary: The Nobel Laureate's psychologically penetrating story of the love affair between a rich South African and the illegal alien she "picks up" on a whim Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daughter trying to escape a priveleged background she despises? When Julie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORGordimer, Nadine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 GORGordimer, Nadine.
Summary: A collection of short fictional works offers insight into the author's use of rich language to convey themes ranging from politics and sexuality to race and family life, in a volume that includes such pieces as "Friday's Footprint" and "Something Out There."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORGordimer, Nadine.
Summary: When South Africa is riven by war and the Smales, a white couple, take refuge in the village of their former servant July, their relationships are completely transformed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORGordimer, Nadine.
Summary: A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1990
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Summary: The novel is set in South Africa during the last days of the white regime. The heroine is Vera Stark, a white lawyer who works to restore land taken from blacks by the government. Her political work is played out against a background of family problems, among them an overbearing husband, a lesbian daughter and a son who has emigrated to England and is divorcing his wife. By the author of My...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1995