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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories
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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories Hardcover - 2007

by Gordimer, Nadine

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In this collection of new stories, Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007-11-27. Hardcover. New.
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  • Title Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories
  • Author Gordimer, Nadine
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Date 2007-11-27
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0374109826_new
  • ISBN 9780374109820 / 0374109826
  • Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 6.6 x 0.78 in (21.64 x 16.76 x 1.98 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007033474
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/01/2007, Page 29
  • Entertainment Weekly, 11/30/2007, Page 138
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2007, Page 951
  • Library Journal, 10/01/2007, Page 67
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 08/01/2007, Page 51
  • New York Times Book Review, 12/16/2007, Page 24
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/10/2007, Page 38
  • Vanity Fair, 12/01/2007, Page 140

About the author

Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) was a Nobel Prize winner whose novels include the Booker Prize-winning The Conservationist, Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning The Pickup, and No Time Like the Present. Gordimer's short story collections include Loot and Jump and Other Stories. She also published literary and political essay collections such as Living in Hope and History.

Gordimer was a vice president of PEN International and an executive member of the Congress of South African Writers. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Great Britain and a Commandeur of l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France).