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 The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer
 The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer ... Retro-Sixties friends, a young Arab garage mechanic emerges from beneath the chassis of a vehicle to aid her. Out of this meeting develops an extraordinary story.Newest Review: ... the EL-AY Café with The Table (again always capital letters), a group of f ... more ...
riends who are her ersatz family. One day her car breaks down and has to be pushed to a garage, a young mechanic, dark-skinned and foreign-looking, an Indian or an Arab?, takes care of it. The beginning of the novel is told from Julie´s point of view, we get the impression that she picks the man up, later the perspective changes and we learn that the man is equally interested in a relationship for completely different motives, though. Sh...more |
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The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer: Pickup Love (1250 words)
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Have you experienced this: you hear or read about an author in the media and know at once that their works of fiction would appeal to you, but somehow you never get around to reading them and whenever the name pops up you feel something resembling pangs of conscience? Well, I´ve felt like this with Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer (born 1923), according to Seamus Heany ´one of the guerrillas of imagination´, honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Over half a century, Gordimer has written thirteen novels, over two hundred short stories, and several volumes of essays which have been ... Read the complete review
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