About this title: Winner of the 1974 Booker-McConnel Prize for Fiction, Gordimer's novel is about a self-professed "conservationist" in South Africa, a wealthy, middle-aged, sexually voracious industrialist and landowner who lives the good life and seeks at all costs to preserve it, and about the guilt and alienation he comes to feel regarding the poor blacks who work for him.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1983-02-24
ISBN-13:9780140047165ISBN:0140047166
Description: New. BRAND NEW W/ REMAINDER MARK! ! MAY SHOW MINOR SHELF WEAR! ! MULTIPLE COPIES MAY BE AVAILABLE! ! PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE GUARANTEED! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780670238835ISBN:067023883X
Description: Book has usual library markings, with pocket, sticker stains on first & last pages, stamped on top edge, ink mark on lower edge, book & DJ show shelf wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 252 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780070237810ISBN:0070237816
Description: Very Good. Paperback. Text is clean and unmarked. Corners show a little wear but are still crisp. Covers have some rubbing around spine. Spine sunned but uncreased. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Viking Press
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780670238835ISBN:067023883X
Description: Good in Good jacket. 174-W-Add Ex-library. Have a little stains on front cover. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mcgraw Hill, New York
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780070237810ISBN:0070237816
Description: Very Good; 0-07-023781-6. 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 252 pages; Trade size paperback lightly rubbed at edges. Slightly scuffed at hinge. Spine is a little sun faded. Text pages clean and tight. read more
Description: FINE-/Trade pb. Excellent condition trade paperback of Nobel winner's classic novel about a failing farmer. No marks, creases or curls, straight binding, sl toning only. 1983, Penguin pb, 267 pp read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, England
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780140047165ISBN:0140047166
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. excellent condition, no marks etc., from collector. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. as new read more
"I'm not knocking Gordimer here; she's definately a talented writer. However, for me this book was a rather long-winded overly descriptive narrative in which nothing really happened."
"Like every short story and novel I've read by Nadine Gordimer, this book is wonderful. She puts the reader in the head of every character, and her writing is seamless. Her style I think is unique. Whatever the plot, the back story is always the insideousness of racism in apartheid South Africa.
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