The Late Bourgeois World - Softcover

Nadine Gordimer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408836009 ISBN 13: 9781408836002

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2013

Synopsis

Liz van den sandts ex-husband, max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself in prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues now liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the black nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself can she take such a risk in the face of maxs example of the uselessness of such actions yet how can she not

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About the Author

Nadine Gordimer's many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger's Daughter, July's People, My Son's Story, The Pickup and, most recently, No Time Like the Present. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and, most recently, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. She has also collected and edited Telling Tales, a story anthology published in fourteen languages whose royalties go to HIV/AIDS organisations. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She lives in South Africa.

Review

Superb ... [Nadine] Gordimer's persuasiveness is achieved with one of the lightest and yet most inexorable touches you will find in contemporary writing New York Times Miss Gordimer has earned herself a place among the few novelists who really matter Observer A fine, compassionate, and exquisitely written work Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1408836009
• ISBN 13: 9781408836002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128