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The House Gun
by Gordimer, Nadine
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 074753666X
- ISBN 13
- 9780747536666
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury. As New in As New dust jacket. 1998. First Printing. Hard Cover. 074753666X . Signed by the Nobel Laureate author on the title page. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, tan endpapers. Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity." . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 294, (1) pp. Signed by Author .
Synopsis
A house gun — kept like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life at the end of this century where violence is in the air. With that gun the architect son of Harald and Claudia has committed what is to them the unimaginable act — shot dead the intimate friend he discovered making love to his woman. And the relationship between the three is revealed to have unimaginable meaning... How has Duncan come to abandon the sanctity of human life they taught him? What kind of loyalty do parents owe a self-confessed murderer? In post-apartheid South Africa the defense of their son's life is in the hands of a black man: Hamilton Motsamai, a flamboyant, distinguished advocate returned from political exile. The balance of everything in the parents' world is turned upside down. The House Gun is a passionate narrative of that final text of complex human relations we call love, moving from the intimate to the general condition. If it is a parable of present violence it is also an affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts where it must, between individual men and women.
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- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26596
- Title
- The House Gun
- Author
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New in As New dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 074753666X
- ISBN 13
- 9780747536666
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 074753666X, Literature;, Novels;, Fiction;, Nobel Laureates, Nobel Prize, South Africa
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