Life times
Subtitle: stories, 1952-2007
By: by Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9780747592631
Subjects: Fiction
Description: For the first time, we can see the full range of Nadine Gordimer's outstanding achievement as she explores the borderland between private emotions and the forces of the external world. Spanning six decades, the thirty-eight stories published in this volume represent the exceptionally entertaining and challenging best of one of the great writers of our time.
Table of contents: title: The soft voice of the serpent; title: The amateurs; title: Six feet of the country; title: Face from Atlantis; title: Which new era would that be?; title: The smell of death and flowers; title: Not for publication; title: Through time and distance; title: A chip of glass ruby; title: Some Monday for sure; title: Friday's footprint; title: The bridegroom; title: Livingstone's companions; title: Why haven't you written?; title: Open house; title: A meeting in space; title: Rain-queen; title: Town and country lovers; title: A soldier's embrace; title: For dear life; title: Oral history; title: A lion on the freeway; title: At the rendezvous of victory; title: Letter from his father; title: Something out there; title: Once upon a time; title: The moment before the gun went off; title: The ultimate safari; title: A find; title: Loot; title: The generation gap; title: Look-alikes; title: The diamond mine; title: Tape measure; title: Dreaming of the dead; title: Beethoven was one-sixteenth black; title: Parking tax; title: Second coming.