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The Pickup

The Pickup( )
Author: Gordimer, Nadine
ISBN:978-0-374-23210-8
Publication Date:Sep 2001
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.00
Book Description:

The Nobel Laureate's psychologically penetrating story of the love affair between a rich South African and the illegal alien she "picks up" on a whim Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daughter trying to escape a priveleged background she despises? When Julie Summers' car breaks down in a sleazy street, at a garage a young Arab emerges from beneath the...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 Inches
Book Weight:9.12 Pounds
Author Biography
Gordimer, Nadine (Author)
Nadine Gordimer was born in Gauteng, South Africa on November 20, 1923. She attended the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa for one year. She is a novelist and short-story writer whose major theme is exile and alienation. Her first short story collection, The Soft Voice of the Serpent, was published in 1952 and her first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953. Her other short story collections include Jump, Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972, and Loot. Her other novels include A World of Strangers, A Guest of Honour, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story, None to Accompany Me, The Pickup, and Get a Life. She has received numerous awards including the Booker Prize for The Conservationist in 1974, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, and the French Legion of Honour in 2007. She died on July 13, 2014 at the age of 90.

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