Loot and Other Stories
by Nadine Gordimer
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A collection of ten short fiction stories by Nadine Gordimer.Tags
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Either my tastes have changed since I first read Gordimer (which is entirely possible - since I first read her in college 11 or 12 years ago) or she's changed her style in this book a little. Jump and other Stories is one of my favorite books ever, but I may have to re-read it now to see if it's as good as I thought it was. This collection....not so good. I think I was most disheartened by the lack of dialogue. Gordimer doesn't have the characters talking. Instead, she describes what they're saying. It makes things clumsy. I guess in general, there's less fire in her work since so much of it was based on apartheid and with that demise, there's a little less to write about. There's still absolutely racial tension and prejudice, but it's show more not as blatant as it was before. Those problems being a little more of an undercurrent rather than a main focus blunts some of the shock Gordimer was able to bring up in her previous works. show less
Author is a Nobel Prize winnder in 1991.
Lucid, memorable prose.
Lucid, memorable prose.
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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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. (Publisher Provided) show less
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