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None to Accompany Me

A Novel

None to Accompany Me( )
Author: Gordimer, Nadine
ISBN:978-1-250-00771-1
Publication Date:Jul 2012
Publisher:Picador
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.00
Book Description:

In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation into the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land. None to Accompany Me is arresting and reverbant - perhaps the most powerful novel to date by one of the world's most commanding writers.

Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / Legal
Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.43 x 8.21 x 0.82 Inches
Book Weight:0.61 Pounds
Author Biography
Gordimer, Nadine (Author)
Nadine Gordimer was born in Gauteng, South Africa on November 20, 1923. She attended the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa for one year. She is a novelist and short-story writer whose major theme is exile and alienation. Her first short story collection, The Soft Voice of the Serpent, was published in 1952 and her first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953. Her other short story collections include Jump, Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972, and Loot. Her other novels include A World of Strangers, A Guest of Honour, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story, None to Accompany Me, The Pickup, and Get a Life. She has received numerous awards including the Booker Prize for The Conservationist in 1974, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, and the French Legion of Honour in 2007. She died on July 13, 2014 at the age of 90.

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