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008 021105s2003 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a 2002042601
020 _a0374190909 (alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)51022631
035 _a(OCoLC)ocm51022631
035 _a(NNC)3440494
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050 0 0 _aPR9369.G6
_bL6 2004
100 1 _aGordimer, Nadine.
_91526
245 1 0 _aLoot, and other stories /
_cNadine Gordimer.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c2003.
263 _a0304
300 _a240 p. ;
_c22 cm.
505 0 0 _tLoot --
_tMission Statement --
_tVisiting George --
_tThe Generation Gap --
_tL.U.C.I.E. --
_tLook-Alikes --
_tThe Diamond Mine --
_tHomage --
_tAn Emissary --
_tKarma.
520 1 _a"In the title story, an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead and the avarice of the town's survivors. In "The Diamond Mine," a woman recalls her youthful surreptitious sexual initiation while she and her parents chauffeured a young soldier to his wartime embarkation.
520 8 _aA minuscule presence brings death to the saunas and other playgrounds of the developed world in "The Emissary." "Mission Statement" is the story of a development agency official's idealism, the ghosts of colonial history, and a love affair with a government official that ends astoundingly. "The Generation Gap" turns the "gap" upside down when a father's bid for freedom shocks his adult children. In "Homage," one of Europe's alien immigrants visits the grave of the politician he was paid to assassinate.
520 8 _aIn "Karma," Gordimer's inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns to the earthly life, a disembodied narrator, taking on different ages and genders, testifies to unfinished business - critically, wittily - and questions the nature of existence."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 _aSouth Africa
_xSocial life and customs
_vFiction.
_91527
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002042601.html
900 _bTOC
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