New York:: Viking,, (1975.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, sunning to dj, light rubbing, price-clipped). First US printing. Winner of the Booker Prize; described as Gordimer's finest novel, set in South Africa. "A wealthy industrialist, attractive to women, not yet fifty, Mehring wants for nothing that white privilege in a black country can bring him." 252 pp,

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Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate. Her book, The Conservationist , was awarded the Man Booker prize in 1974. It is an in-depth depiction of life in a South Africa town that is suffering through apartheid in the 1960’s and 70’s. The main character, Mehring, is a wealthy businessman and landowner. His success in industry provided the means to buy a 400-acre farm, which serves primarily as a tax write-off. In his quest for material success, Mehring has lost his wife and his mistress, while becoming estranged from his teenage son. The author has an uncanny ability to allow the reader to feel the isolation and desertion that abound in this superbly written book.

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 57459
Title: THE CONSERVATIONIST.
Author: Gordimer, Nadine
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Near fine in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, sunning to dj, light rubbing, price-clipped)
Jacket Condition: very good
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 067023883X
ISBN 13: 9780670238835
Publisher: Viking,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (1975.)
Keywords: booker prize, nobel laureate, south africa,
Bookseller catalogs: Modern first editions;

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