My Son's Story
by Gordimer, Nadine
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Cape Town/ Johannesburg: David Philip/Taurus, 1990. 277pp. Blue Boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Author inscription on the title page. Minor nick on the rear gutter, otherwise a clean,unmarked copy. Unclipped blue pictorial jacket has light creasing on the extremities. "My Son's Story is the ninth novel by South African novelist Nadine Gordimer. It was written towards the end of the State of Emergency and first published in 1990. The very next year, Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Swedish Academy explicitly cited My Son's Story in their press release, calling it "ingenious and revealing and at the same time enthralling".. Signed By the Author. First South African Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo.
Synopsis
"Gordimer has taken South Africa's tragedy and laid the truth of it in our laps. The story she tells is lucid and achingly alive." The Boston Sunday Globe .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031550
- Title
- My Son's Story
- Author
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First South African Edition
- Publisher
- David Philip/Taurus
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town/ Johannesburg
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Novel Apartheid Family
- Size
- Octavo
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