pickup
by gordimer, nadine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0374232105
- ISBN 13
- 9780374232108
- Seller
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RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a sleazy street in a South African city, a young Arab mechanic named Abdu comes to her aid. Their attraction to one another is fueled by different motives. Julie is in rebellion against her wealthy background and her father; Abdu, an illegal immigrant, is desperate to avoid deportation to his impoverished country. In the course of their relationship, there are unpredictable consequences, and overwhelming emotions will overturn each one's notion of the other. Set in the new South Africa and in an Arab village in the desert, The Pickup is "a masterpiece of creative empathy . . . a gripping tale of contemporary anguish and unexpected desire, and it also opens the Arab world to unusually nuanced perception" (Edward W. Said).
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Details
- Seller
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1600915
- Title
- pickup
- Author
- gordimer, nadine
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374232105
- ISBN 13
- 9780374232108
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2001
Terms of Sale
Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books
Books not matching listed description may returned for full refund within 30 days of original sale.
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