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008			140902s1990 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a90083232
020			_a9780140159752
050	0	0	_aPR9369.3.G6 _bM9 1990
082	0	0	_aFIC GOR
100	1		_aGordimer, Nadine _d(, 1923-)
245	1	0	_aMy son's story _c/ Nadine Gordimer.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar Straus Giroux _c, c1990.
300			_a277 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aGordimer's new novel, about a colored South African family ravaged by the father's affair with a white human rights advocate, probes with breathtaking power and precision the complexities of ``love, love/hate,'' and the interplay of public and private reality. First-person narration shows son Will's struggle to deal with confusion and bitterness after discovering father Sonny's infidelity; alternating third-person sequences depict Sonny's evolution from a committed schoolteacher and devoted husband/father into a resistance worker for whom the movement itself ultimately becomes a second family--one his loyal wife Aila cannot share with him, though his lover Hannah does. The book's richness of sensation and consciousness is such that Gordimer's eloquence is, at times, almost unbearable. Always, though, she retains perfect control over her material, rendering her characters' shifting perspectives with truly extraordinary empathy and discernment.
650			_aMan-woman relationships _v--Fiction
651			_aSouth Africa _v--Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c264899 _d264899