The Conservationist
de Gordimer, Nadine
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"...A wealthy industrialist, attractive to women and not yet fifty, Mehring wants for nothing that white priviledge in a black country can bring him. With a luxury flat in the city and an expense-account farm in the country, what he is prepared at all costs to conserve is his way of life.
The Conservationist is a deeply fascinating study of a man both reckless and calculating, subconsciously seeking human alienation as a form of self-preservation. Played out in vivid counterpoint to Mehring's memories and fantasies are the lives of those who serve but scarcely notice him -- his victims and his benefactors. And the overwhelming third presence is the calm beauty of the land they contend..."
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Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate. Her book, The Conservationist , was awarded the Man Booker prize in 1974. It is an in-depth depiction of life in a South Africa town that is suffering through apartheid in the 1960’s and 70’s. The main character, Mehring, is a wealthy businessman and landowner. His success in industry provided the means to buy a 400-acre farm, which serves primarily as a tax write-off. In his quest for material success, Mehring has lost his wife and his mistress, while becoming estranged from his teenage son. The author has an uncanny ability to allow the reader to feel the isolation and desertion that abound in this superbly written book.
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- Nooks Of Books (US)
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- Título
- The Conservationist
- Autor
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 067023883X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670238835
- Editorial
- Viking Penguin
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1975
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