The Conservationist: Booker Prize Winner (A Novel) - Paperback
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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.
The Conservationist: Booker Prize Winner (A Novel) - Paperback
$24.00
by Nadine Gordimer (Author)
"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books
The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine GordimerMehring 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.
Author Biography
Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) Born in Springs, South Africa, she was the author of fourteen novels, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story and None to Accompany Me. Her short fictio was published in eleven collections including Jump, and Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972. Her nonfiction includes The Essential Gesture; On the Mines; The Black Interpreters. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.63 x 7.8 x 5.12 IN
Publication Date: February 24, 1983
Award: Man Booker Prize (1974)
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