A Guest of Honour

A Guest of Honour PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747559880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Brilliant and shocking novel set in South Africa by the Nobel Prize-winner

A Guest of Honour

A Guest of Honour PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747559880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Brilliant and shocking novel set in South Africa by the Nobel Prize-winner

Guest of Honor

Guest of Honor PDF Author: Deborah Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439169829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Documents the 1901 White House dinner shared by former slave Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected post-Civil War politics and race relations.

The Guest of Honor

The Guest of Honor PDF Author: Irving Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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July's People

July's People PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.

The Dream We Carry

The Dream We Carry PDF Author: Olav H. Hauge
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592884
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Comprehensive, bilingual volume from Norway's sage; translated by the Roberts Bly and Hedin.

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer PDF Author: Dominic Head
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521475495
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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The award to Nadine Gordimer of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 was an affirmation of her distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction and to the creation of a literature that challenges apartheid. In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of her novels in detail, paying close attention to the texts both as a reflection of events and situations in the real world, and as evidence of her constant rethinking of her craft. Head shows how Gordimer's concerns, apparent in her earliest novels, are developed through increasing stress on the politics of textuality; and he pursues the implications of this development to consider how Gordimer's later work contributes to postmodernist fiction, and to a recentering of political engagement in an era of uncertainty.

The Late Bourgeois World

The Late Bourgeois World PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408836017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max's example of the uselessness of such actions? Yet ... how can she not?

None to Accompany Me

None to Accompany Me PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Set in South Africa, this is the story of Vera Stark, a lawyer and an independent mother of two, who works for the Legal Foundation representing blacks trying to reclaim land that was once theirs. As her country lurches towards majority rule, so she discovers a need to reconstruct her own life.

Point of Honour

Point of Honour PDF Author: Madeleine E. Robins
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466805188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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A fallen noblewoman’s first case as a private investigator sends her on a wild adventure on the streets of Regency London in this mystery series debut. In a Regency London that isn’t quite the one we know, young women of family whose reputations have been ruined are known as the Fallen. Young Sarah Tolerance is one such: a daughter of the nobility who ran away with her brother’s fencing-master. Now that the fencing-master has died, everyone expects her to earn her living as a whore. But Sarah is unwilling. Instead, she invents a new role for herself, and a new vocation: “investigative agent.” For Sarah, with her equivocal position in society, is able to float between social layers, unearth secrets, find things that were lost, and lose things too dangerous to be kept. Her stock in trade is her wits, her discretion, and her expertise with the smallsword—for her fencing-master taught her that as well. She will need all her skills soon, when she is approached by an agent of the Count Verseillon, for a task that seems routine: reclaim an antique fan he once gave to “a lady with brown eyes.” The fan, he tells her, is an heirloom; the lady, his first love. But as Sarah Tolerance unravels the mystery that surrounds the fan, she discovers that she—and the Count—are not the only ones seeking it, and that nothing about this task is what it seems. Praise for Point of Honour “Sarah is a fascinating heroine, and Robins surrounds her with equally intriguing secondary characters. Politics, deception, danger, and a bit of romance all come together beautifully in this superb debut.” —Booklist “An action-packed, suspense-filled read, complete with a 19th-century heroine reminiscent of the present day Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” —Romantic Times

True Honor

True Honor PDF Author: Dee Henderson
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414355416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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CIA officer Darcy St. James is after a man who knew September 11 would happen—a man who chose to profit from the knowledge. Navy SEAL Sam “Cougar” Houston is busy: The intelligence Darcy is generating has his team deploying around the world. Under the pressure of war, their romance flourishes. But it may be a short relationship: for the terrorists have chosen their next targets, and Darcy's name is high on the list. Uncommon Heroes: Welcome to a world where friendships go deep, loyalties stand strong, and uncommon heroes perform the toughest jobs in the world. Dee Henderson's military romance series provides a detailed passage into the world of the military and homeland heroes, and those they love.