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The conservationist / Nadine Gordimer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordimer, Nadine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alienation (Social psychology)--Fiction.
- Alienation (Social psychology).
- South African fiction (English).
- Booker Prize.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, 1975.
- Summary:
- 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. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation.
- Notes:
- Man Booker Prize, 1974.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Cited in:
- Driver, D. Nadine Gordimer : a bibliography of primary and secondary sources, 1937-1992, 12
- ISBN:
- 067023883X
- 9780670238835
- OCLC:
- 1046790
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