Loot, and Other Stories - Hardcover

Gordimer, Nadine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374190909 ISBN 13: 9780374190903

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003

Synopsis

Ten works of short fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning writer include such pieces as "The Diamond Mine," in which a woman recalls her surreptitious sexual initiation; and "The Emissary," in which the anopheles mosquito brings death to the saunas and other recreational areas of the developed world.

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Review:

Gordimers 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")

A remarkable collection. ("Richmond Times-Dispatch")

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

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

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

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

GordimerAEs 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)

About the Author:

Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. The author of thirteen novels, most recently The Pickup (2001), and nine volumes of stories, she lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0374190909
• ISBN 13: 9780374190903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240