Life Times

Name: Life Times
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ISBN: 9780747596189

Stories 1952-2007

Nadine Gordimer

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Bloomsbury Publishing
01 January 2012

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. In the opinion of the Academy: ‘Through her magnificent epic writing she has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.'

Gordimer has said that while novelists take the reader by the hand developing ‘a consistency of relationship that does not and cannot convey the quality of human life, where contact is more like the flash of fireflies, in and out, now here, now there, in darkness. Short-story writers see by the light of the flash; theirs is the only thing one can be sure of - the present moment.'

Now, for the first time, the best of her stories are published in one volume.

By: Nadine Gordimer
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780747596189
ISBN 10: 0747596182
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 01 January 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=571

Nadine Gordimer has written many novels and collections of short stories. She also edited the anthology of stories Telling Tales in support of HIV and AIDS preventive education and for medical treatment for people in southern Africa. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She lives in South Africa.

Reviews for Life Times: Stories 1952-2007

'Nadine Gordimer is one of the best story-writers in English today.' Observer 'Gordimer's stark sentences and emotional depth make most modern fiction seem trivial.' The Times 'Gordimer has undoubtedly become one of the World's Great Writers ... her rootedness in a political time, place and faith has never dimmed her complex gifts as an artist.' Independent