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Article: The Novels of Nadine Gordimer.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Nadine Gordimer is a distinguished South African writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. That award necessarily made her novels and short stories more available, and more recognizable, for a global readership. Professor Clingman, formerly of Oxford University, now teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In this book, he has provided us with a well-informed and reliable guide to the subject, which must be of interest and concern to very many readers, whether British or American. Not only does he provide an incisive study of Nadine Gordimer as the vivid, first-hand interpreter of South African affairs across forty years of its ...