Description: nadine gordimer vintage book loot and other stories 1st edition 1st print hardcover 2003 FSG literature fiction short story collection Masterly new fiction from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature A startling new ten fictions, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story, an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead and the avarice of the town's survivors. In "The Diamond Mine," a woman recalls her youthful surreptitious sexual initiation, while she and her parents chauffeured a young soldier to his wartime embarkation. The anopleles mosquito brings death to the saunas and other playgrounds of the developed world in "The Emissary." "Mission Statement" is the story of a development agency official's idealism, the ghosts of colonial history, and a love affair with a government official that ends astoundingly. "The Generation Gap" turns the "gap" upside down when a father's bid for freedom shocks his adult children. In "Homage," one of Europe's aliens visits the grave of the politician he was paid to assassinate. In "Karma," Gordimer's inventiveness knows no in five returns to the earthly life, taking on different ages and genders, a disembodied narrator testifies to unfinished business--critically, wittily--and questions the nature of existence. Title: Loot and Other StoriesAuthor: Nadine GordimerSeries: n/aHardcover: 240 pagesPrinting: 1stPublisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (2003)Language: EnglishCondition: Near FineCondition Notes: 1st Edition, 1st print vintage hardcover in unclipped jacket. Two tone grey boards with with silver gilt lettering. Text and pages clean and unmarked. Light foxing to page ends. Very light age, shelf and handling wear. Jacket protected by archival adjustable cover. A nice vintage copy of this 2003 short story collection by the Nobel Prize winning South African author Nadine Gordimer.
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 2003
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Region: Africa
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Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1
