Loot, and other stories / Nadine Gordimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordimer, Nadine.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Africa--Social life and customs--Fiction.

South Africa.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 2004.

Summary:

This startling new collection of stories from Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer offers ten astonishing portraits following the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. An earthquake offers tragedy and opportunity in the title story, exposing both an ocean bed strewn with treasure and the avarice of the town's survivors. "Mission Statement" is the story of a bureaucrat's idealism, the ghosts of colonial history, and a love affair with a government minister that ends astoundingly. And in "Karma," Gordimer's inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns to earthly life, a disembodied narrator, taking on different ages and genders, testifies to unfinished business and questions the nature of existence. Revelatory and powerful, these are stories that challenge our deepest convictions even as they dazzle us with their artful lyricism.

Contents:

Loot

Mission statement

Visiting George

The generation gap

L, U, C, I, E.

Look-alikes

The diamond mine

Homage

An emissary

Karma.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-240).

ISBN:

0142004685

9780142004685

OCLC:

56601497