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Title: July's People by Nadine Gordimer ISBN: 0-14-006140-1 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Most beautifully written book I've read in years
Comment: Bam and Maureen Smales--wealthy, white South Africans--awaken in the village of July, their servant of many years. As the revolution rages around them, the three main characters (like the country itself) discover that their identities, roles, and rules have dissolved or been reordered. "July's People" documents their struggle to redefine themselves and their relationships.
July's People is not an easy read. The complexity of Gordimer's narrative reflects the complexity of her characters and the complexity of their situation. An "easy" book would hardly serve such topics. Gordimer's writing is tight (less than 200 pages) and natural (her dialog "sounds" human). There are few writers whose skill I envy more than Gordimer's.
HIGHLY recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Haunting and futuristic
Comment: A haunting, futuristic novel, imagining whites fleeing from black terror in South Africa. Explores the complex relationship between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and individuals and their environment.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Clarification
Comment: Just thought I'd clarify that the "dashes" that reviewers have been referring to are in fact the standard for marking dialogue in South Africa and, I might add, many other countries.
Gordimer's novel is, I think, a great work of literature that deserves to be read as much for its style and attention to detail as for its touchy and still-applicable subject matter.
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Title: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer ISBN: 0140047166 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: February, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0140296409 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer ISBN: 0142001422 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Things Fall Apart : A Novel by CHINUA ACHEBE ISBN: 0385474547 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer ISBN: 0140055932 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1980 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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