My Son's Story / Nadine Gordimer.

By:

Gordimer, Nadine

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi : Doaba Pub., 2002.Description: xxii ; 277 p. ; Soft-Bound; 23 cmDDC classification:

23 823 GOR

Contents:

My son's story text; Background readings; Writing and being, Nobel lecture, Dec. 7, 1991; My Son's story; Making the 'Revolutionary Gesture' Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee and some variations on the writer's responsibility; Othering the self: Nadine Gordimer's; Our century: 27th Jawaharlal Nehru memorial Lecture; From the 'Introduction' to the locations of culture unhomely lives: The literature of recognition.

Summary: A school boy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of the cinema with a woman. An ordinary mishap; but the father is no ordinary man, and the family, threatened by the affair, is no ordinary family. This is a passionate story; love between a man and two woman, between father and son, and something even more demanding - a love of freedom. It is highly intimate drama of personal conflict and public struggle in the evolutionary events that, at great cost to people like these, have bought about changes in South Africa.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Tetso College Library Biographies	Fiction	823 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1738

My son's story text;
Background readings;
Writing and being, Nobel lecture, Dec. 7, 1991;
My Son's story;
Making the 'Revolutionary Gesture' Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee and some variations on the writer's responsibility;
Othering the self: Nadine Gordimer's;
Our century: 27th Jawaharlal Nehru memorial Lecture;
From the 'Introduction' to the locations of culture unhomely lives: The literature of recognition.

A school boy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of the cinema with a woman. An ordinary mishap; but the father is no ordinary man, and the family, threatened by the affair, is no ordinary family. This is a passionate story; love between a man and two woman, between father and son, and something even more demanding - a love of freedom. It is highly intimate drama of personal conflict and public struggle in the evolutionary events that, at great cost to people like these, have bought about changes in South Africa.

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