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Something Out There

By Nadine Gordimer

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| Paperback | 9780140077117

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This powerful collection of short stories and a novella reflects Nadine Gordimer's extraordinary ability to illuminate the connection between the personal and the political in the divided society of South Africa. With compassion and scrupulous honesty, Gordimer penetreates to the core of the human hContinue

This powerful collection of short stories and a novella reflects Nadine Gordimer's extraordinary ability to illuminate the connection between the personal and the political in the divided society of South Africa. With compassion and scrupulous honesty, Gordimer penetreates to the core of the human heart, revealing the subtlest feelings of her characters - black and white, revolutionaries and racists, adulterers, spinsters and lovers.

The long novella that is the centerpiece of this book is the story of a white couple and two black revolutionaries counterpointed with reports of a strange creature ravaging an elite suburb of Johannisburg. As she depicts these ironically parallel situations, Gordimer conveys the tremors of a violent universe beyond the specific events. And she brilliantly captures here, and in the other stories, the inner tremors caused by love, despair, betrayal, and exaltation.

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  • Saboteurs

    Nadine Gordimer continues to send sane, humane reports from the edge of darkness. In her finest stories she fixes authoritatively the experience of her South African characters, who exist in the shadow of a gun. They are menaced by repressive laws, u ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

  • Somebody Out There

    “Something Out There” is the title story of Nadine Gordimer’s new collection. Eighty-five pages of fictional mastery. Those who know this unsurpassed talent might say, once more, and not surprising. Note the way the author opens the plot, arranges th ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Fri, 20 Aug 2010

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  • Paperback 203 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0140077111
  • ISBN-13: 9780140077117
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 1985
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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