A Collection Of Short Fictional Works Offers Insight Into The Author's Use Of Rich Language To Convey Themes Ranging From Politics And Sexuality To Race And Family Life, In A Volume That Includes Such Pieces As Friday's Footprint And Something Out There. The Soft Voice Of The Serpent -- The Amateurs -- Six Feet Of The Country -- Face From Atlantis -- Which New Era Would That Be? -- The Smell Of Death And Flowers -- Not For Publication -- Through Time And Distance -- A Chip Of Glass Ruby -- Some Monday For Sure -- Friday's Footprint -- The Bridegroom -- Livingstone's Companions -- Why Haven't You Written? -- Open House -- A Meeting In Space -- Rain-queen -- Town And Country Lovers -- A Soldier's Embrace -- For Dear Life -- Oral History -- A Lion On The Freeway -- At The Rendezvous Of Victory -- Letter From His Father -- Something Out There -- Once Upon A Time -- The Moment Before The Gun Went Off -- The Ultimate Safari -- A Find -- Loot -- The Generation Gap -- Look-alikes -- The Diamond Mine -- Tape Measure -- Dreaming Of The Dead -- Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black -- Parking Tax -- Second Coming. Nadine Gordimer.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Short Stories & Anthologies
- Short Stories
- Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author : Gordimer, Nadine
Language : English
Published :2010-11-09
Number Of Pages : 549
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0374270538
ISBN-13 : 9780374270537
Item weight : 1.75 lb
Dimensions : 1.7 in x 6.2 in x 8.8 in
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