num_pages: 187
description: When paul bannerman, an ecologist in africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time he is especially struck by the contradiction in values of his work as a conservationist and that of his wife, an advertising agency executive then when paul moves in with his parents to protect his wife and young son from radiation, the strange nature of his condition leads his mother to face her own past
language: English
title: Get a Life
titlecomplete: Get a Life
genres: Fiction, Family, South Africa, Short Stories, Literature, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 630
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC