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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and other stories by Nadine Gordimer
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer's countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a ...Show more
Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black and other stories by Nadine Gordimer
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Senses play a telling part in three of the stories in Nadine Gordimer's magnificent new collection. In one we meet a woman who can gauge the stability of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello, and in another by the scent in the nape of her husband's neck. For one couple who emigrate to South A ...Show more
Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, destr ...Show more
Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive and for a period a danger to others, he questions, as Auden wrote, 'What aut ...Show more
Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He is especially struck by the contradiction in values of his work as a conservationist and that of hi ...Show more
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature For years, it had been what is called a "deteriorating situation." Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family--liberal whites--are rescued from the terror by their servant, J ...Show more
Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 by Nadine Gordimer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The collected stories of one of the world's great living writers are published in one volume for the first time Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novel ...Show more
No Time Like The Present by Gordimer, Nadine
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks - with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul - the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history. The revelation of this ...Show more
No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks - with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul - the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history. The revelation of this ...Show more
Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 by Nadine Gordimer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. "Telling Times" collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of colonial rule in South Africa, to the long, brutal fig ...Show more
Telling Times : Writing and living 1950-2009 by Nadine Gordimer
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: From
Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of colonial rule in South Africa, to the long, brutal fight ...Show more
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