Book #29509

The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Nadine Gordimer
Book #29509 The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places - 1st US Edition/1st Printing. Nadine Gordimer.
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First US Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
ISBN: 0394573978

A beautiful unread first American edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer directly on the title page.

A collection of 23 biographical and autobiographical essays written from the 1950s to 1985 on writing, censorship and South African politics. A South African native, Nobel Prize Laureate Gordimer provides an intimate picture of that country and the changing life under apartheid. She believes that racial prejudice is abhorrent, especially when sanctioned by the government, and that it is the writer's job to speak the truth; 8vo; viii, 356, [2] pages; Signed by Author.

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Author Bio

Nadine Gordimer

Born 20 November 1923, Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, and Alfred Nobel described her work as a “very great benefit to humanity.” Gordimer may be best known for July’s People, which sparked some controversy for its political themes. Gordimer’s writing often deals with racial and moral issues, especially apartheid in South Africa.

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