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The Lying Days

The Lying Days

by NadineGordimer (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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    Paperback 1983

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Synopsis

Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her. Her involvement, as a bohemian student, with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 07 Oct 2002
ISBN 10: 0747559937
ISBN 13: 9780747559931
Book Overview: Nadine Gordimer's first novel published with A WORLD OF STRANGERS and A GUEST OF HONOUR alongside the paperback edition of her new novel THE PICKUP, as part of an on-going Nadine Gordimer promotion from Bloomsbury Nadine Gordimer is the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize

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'Nadine Gordimer is the real thing: by which I mean a true writer of graphic power, palpitating sensibility, and high and persistent emotional voltage' OBSERVER
Author Bio
Nadine Gordimer's many novels include THE CONSERVATIONIST, joint winner of the Booker Prize, BURGER'S DAUGHTER, JULY'S PEOPLE, MY SON'S STORY, NONE TO ACCOMPANY ME, A GUEST OF HONOUR, THE WORLD OF STRANGERS and THE HOUSE GUN. Her collections of short stories include SOMETHING OUT THERE and JUMP. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She lives in South Africa.