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The Conservationist

Gordimer, Nadine. Book - 1978 Fiction / Gordimer, Nadine 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Joint winner 1974 Booker prize.
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. -- Nadine Gordimer's fascinating portrait of a man both reckless and calculating, a "conservationist" left only with the possibility of self-preservation, is also a subtle and detailed study of the forces and relationships that seethe in South Africa today.
Mehring, a wealthy, dominating South African industrialist moves to preserve his way of life, his power, and his possessions in the face of massive injustice and suffering, changing times, and death.

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PUBLISHED
London : Penguin Books, 1978.
Year Published: 1978
Description: 266 p. ; 18 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0140047166
9780140047165

SUBJECTS
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Farmers -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Manners and customs -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.