Selected Stories

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Viking Press, 1975 - Short stories - 381 pages
In these stories, selected by Gordimer herself, characters from every corner of society come to life, along with the South African landscape they inhabit. The stories have a strong focus on racial issues, yet their implications are universal. The stories are National Curriculum recommended reading.

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Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?
15
Ah Woe Is Me
24
The Catch
31
Copyright

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Selected Stories
Nadine Gordimer
Snippet view - 1983
Selected Stories
Nadine Gordimer
Snippet view - 1976
Selected Stories
Nadine Gordimer
Snippet view - 1983

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About the author (1975)

Nadine Gordimer was born in Gauteng, South Africa on November 20, 1923. She attended the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa for one year. She is a novelist and short-story writer whose major theme is exile and alienation. Her first short story collection, The Soft Voice of the Serpent, was published in 1952 and her first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953. Her other short story collections include Jump, Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972, and Loot. Her other novels include A World of Strangers, A Guest of Honour, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story, None to Accompany Me, The Pickup, and Get a Life. She has received numerous awards including the Booker Prize for The Conservationist in 1974, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, and the French Legion of Honour in 2007. She died on July 13, 2014 at the age of 90.

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TitleSelected Stories
AuthorNadine Gordimer
PublisherViking Press, 1975
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 6, 2008
ISBN0670631973, 9780670631971
Length381 pages
  
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