A world of strangers / Nadine Gordimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordimer, Nadine.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin books ; 1704.

Penguin books ; 1704

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johannesburg (South Africa)--Fiction.

Johannesburg (South Africa).

South Africa--Johannesburg.

Genre:

Biographies.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

265 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1962.

Contents:

Nobel prize 1991. Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family's publishing company, Toby moves easily, carelessly, between the complacent wealthy white suburbs and the seething, vibrantly alive black townships. His friends include a wide variety of people, from mining directors to black journalists and musicians, and Toby's colonial-style weekends are often interspersed with clandestine evenings spent in black shanty towns. Toby's friendship with Steven Sithole, a dashing embittered young African, touches him in ways he never thought possible, and when Steven's own sense of independence from the rules of society leads to tragedy, Toby's life is changed forever.

ISBN:

0140017046

9780140017045

OCLC:

1892864