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Loot and Other Stories
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Loot and Other Stories Paperback - 2004

by Gordimer, Nadine

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"Loot" features ten new stories from Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer--"a diamond-sharp book" ("San Francisco Chronicle").

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  • Title Loot and Other Stories
  • Author Gordimer, Nadine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 2004-08-31
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0142004685_used
  • ISBN 9780142004685 / 0142004685
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.78 x 5.04 x 0.47 in (19.76 x 12.80 x 1.19 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, South Africa - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002042601
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

With her characteristic brilliance, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. An earthquake offers tragedy and opportunity in the title story, exposing both an ocean bed strewn with treasure and the avarice of the town?s survivors. ?Mission Statement? is the story of a bureaucrat?s idealism, the ghosts of colonial history, and a love affair with a government minister that ends astoundingly. And in ?Karma,? Gordimer?s inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns to earthly life, a disembodied narrator, taking on different ages and genders, testifies to unfinished business and questions the nature of existence. Revelatory and powerful, these are stories that challenge our deepest convictions even as they dazzle us with their artful lyricism.

From the publisher

Nadine Gordimer is the author of eleven previous novels, as well as collections of stories and essays. She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize (for The Conservationist in 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Media reviews

GordimerÆs meticulous charting of human weakness and self-deception is as exact as ever... Deeply exhilarating. (The Boston Globe)

Gordimer is brilliant... Her stories are achingly beautiful. (Pittsburgh Post- Gazette)

A remarkable collection. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Citations

  • New York Times, 09/12/2004, Page 28

About the author

Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) Born in Springs, South Africa, she was the author of fourteen novels, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story and None to Accompany Me. Her short fictio was published in eleven collections including Jump, and Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972. Her nonfiction includes The Essential Gesture; On the Mines; The Black Interpreters. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".