Gordimer, Nadine

Overview

Works:	919 works in 3,308 publications in 5 languages and 80,597 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Domestic fiction Biography History Psychological fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Interviews Political fiction
Roles:	ine, Narrator, Editor, Author of introduction, Interviewee, Creator, Dedicatee, Writer of accompanying material, Contributor, Other, Speaker
Classifications:	PR9369.3.G6, 823

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Nadine Gordimer

Publications by Nadine Gordimer

Publications by Nadine Gordimer, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Nadine Gordimer

The novels of Nadine Gordimer history from the inside by Stephen Clingman ( )
The essential gesture : writing, politics and places by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
Telling times : writing and living, 1954-2008 by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
Writing and being by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
Nadine Gordimer revisited by Barbara Temple-Thurston ( Book )

Nadine Gordimer by Robert F Haugh ( Book )
Living in hope and history : notes from our century by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
Sight-readings : American fictions by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
Critical essays on Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
Betrayals of the body politic : the literary commitments of Nadine Gordimer by Andrew V Ettin ( Book )
The African novel in English : an introduction by M. Keith Booker ( Book )
Nadine Gordimer by Judie Newman ( Book )
The novels of Nadine Gordimer : private lives/public landscapes by John Cooke ( Book )
Conversations with Nadine Gordimer by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
Nadine Gordimer by Dominic Head ( Book )
From the margins of empire : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer by Louise Yelin ( Book )
Rereading Nadine Gordimer by Kathrin M Wagner ( Book )
The later fiction of Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
Nadine Gordimer by Christopher Heywood ( Book )
Nadine Gordimer : a bibliography of primary and secondary sources, 1937-1992 ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Nadine Gordimer

July's people by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
91 editions published between 1981 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 3,522 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When South Africa is riven by war and the Smales, a white couple, take refuge in the village of their former servant July, their relationships are completely transformed

Burger's daughter by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
75 editions published between 1979 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 2,874 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In South Africa, where Blacks and whites are caught in the winds of change, a young woman tries to uphold the radical heritage she received from her martyred parents while carving out a sense of self

My son's story by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
55 editions published between 1990 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,813 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman

A sport of nature : a novel by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
48 editions published between 1987 and 2013 in English and held by 2,774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Follows the sotry of Hillela, a white South African woman, from her self-absorbd adolescence in Johannesburg to her years as the wife of the black president of one of Africa's most progressive nations

The pickup by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
43 editions published between 2001 and 2013 in English and held by 2,662 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A relationship forms between an Arab mechanic desperate to avoid deportation and a rich young woman desperate to escape her family's control

Jump and other stories by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
45 editions published between 1991 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,489 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains stories ranging from the dynamics of family life to the worldwide confusion of human values

The conservationist by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
70 editions published between 1974 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 2,416 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewarsship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm

Get a life by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
30 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in English and held by 2,320 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he is diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he receives treatment that makes him radioactive and a danger to others, leading him to question his outlook on life

The house gun by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
47 editions published between 1997 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,314 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The trauma of parents who discover their son is not the man they thought. It happens to the Lagards of South Africa when Duncan, 27, shoots a man friend out of jealousy. The act reveals a violent individual with--to them--an inconceivable sexual preference and attitude to race

None to accompany me by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
32 editions published between 1994 and 2013 in English and held by 2,285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The novel is set in South Africa during the last days of the white regime. The heroine is Vera Stark, a white lawyer who works to restore land taken from blacks by the government. Her political work is played out against a background of family problems, among them an overbearing husband, a lesbian daughter and a son who has emigrated to England and is divorcing his wife. By the author of My Son's Story

A guest of honour by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
54 editions published between 1970 and 2002 in English and Spanish and held by 1,915 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fra en afrikansk stat som netop har opnået uafhængighed

Selected stories by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
57 editions published between 1972 and 2000 in 4 languages and held by 1,732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A selection of 31 stories from the South African author's work

A soldier's embrace : stories by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
37 editions published between 1980 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,675 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Korte verhalen, spelend in Zuid-Afrika, over algemeen menselijke problemen tegen de achtergrond van de politieke en sociale situatie in Afrika

Something out there : stories by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
39 editions published between 1984 and 1994 in English and held by 1,658 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Een novelle en enkele korte verhalen over het onvermogen van mensen elkaar te bereiken, zich grotendeels afspelend in kringen van verzetsstrijders in Zuid-Afrika

Loot, and other stories by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
28 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of ten short fiction stories by Nadine Gordimer

Beethoven was one-sixteenth black : and other stories by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
18 editions published between 2007 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,475 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of short fiction addresses issues of race, identity, and politics, in the title story about an anti-apartheid activist and academic who pursues questions of his own racial identity, and thirteen other stories

No time like the present by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
23 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in English and held by 1,401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa. They have a daughter, Sindiswa; they move to the suburbs; Steve becomes a lecturer at a university; Jabulile trains to become a lawyer; there is another child, a boy this time. There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself post-apartheid."--Publisher's website

The late bourgeois world by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
46 editions published between 1966 and 2013 in English and held by 1,349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Deals with the suicide of a South African of British descent who is torn by divided loyalties

A world of strangers by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
72 editions published between 1958 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Om venskabet mellem en ung hvid mand og en neger i Johannesburg, Sydafrika

Occasion for loving, a novel by Nadine Gordimer ( Book )
48 editions published between 1960 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The tensions created among a group of white citizens of Johannesburg when a young wife indulges in a forbidden affair with an African rebel

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