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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration

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My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
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    The Return

    Victoria Hislop

My Son's Story

by Nadine Gordimer

My Son's Story Cover

ISBN13: 9780374217518
ISBN10: 0374217513
Condition: Standard
Dustjacket: Standard
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Will, the narrator of this powerfully charged novel, discovers that his father, a political activist and local hero in their South African town, has become involved with a white woman. Wrenching, passionate, deeply resonant, My Son's Story evokes the inexorable yoking of the personal life and politics with uniquely moving force.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374217518
Author:
Gordimer, Nadine
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Family
Subject:
Man-woman relationships
Subject:
South Africa
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Family -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
1990
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
1200US
Publication Date:
19901010
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
278
Dimensions:
9.35x6.35x1.01 in. 1.17 lbs.
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