An auction at
21st May 2013
In support of
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974
8vo, first edition, original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine, dust-jacket, head and foot of spine bumped, spotting to top edge, dust-jacket slightly frayed at extremities
The novel charts the history of a rich man whose life is falling apart. Mehring’s family departs, his farm begins to fail. The perilous decline in his fortunes serves as a metaphor for of the state as a whole, and unless drastic action is taken a tragedy is sure to occur.
Winner (joint) of the 1974 Booker Prize. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Annotated on 39 pages. Approximately 600 words.
I suppose my judgement is prejudicial but for me this novel and 'Burger's Daughter' are the works in which I find most of what there was to be found in the discovery of life.
I suppose my judgement is prejudicial but for me this novel and 'Burger's Daughter' are the works in which I find most of what there was to be found in the discovery of life.
