A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer

A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer

A bold, sweeping story of one girl’s rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power

Abandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga's she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband. At Pauline's she might have developed a social conscience. But Hillela's betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift.

Swiftly and perilously, her life opens out. She lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in East Africa, drifting between jobs and lovers, and finally becomes the wife of a black revolutionary. Personal tragedy is ultimately the catalyst for her political development, leading her into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid.

A powerful book.. the mature achievement [of] a fiercely intelligent writer ... grand-scale, rich and demanding * New York Times Book Review *
Richly detailed and visionary, a brilliant reflection of a world that exists and an affirmation of faith in one that could be born * Time *
A moving, powerful book that, in a career rich with distinguished works, could well be considered her masterpiece * Publishers Weekly *
Gordimer writes with a relish that is sometimes wicked and an authority that seems absolute * The New Yorker *
A valiant, beautifully rendered attempt to do justice, its heart unbowed by the enormity of its burden * Boston Globe *

Nadine Gordimer's many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger's Daughter, July's People, My Son's Story, The Pickup and, most recently, No Time Like the Present. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and, most recently, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. She has also collected and edited Telling Tales, a story anthology published in fourteen languages whose royalties go to HIV/AIDS organisations. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She lives in South Africa.

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ISBN 13	9781408840481
ISBN 10	1408840480
Title	A Sport of Nature
Author	Nadine Gordimer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2013-03-28
Number of pages	448
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