{"product_id":"9781250003751","title":"My Son's Story : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMy Son's Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Nadine Gordimer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary mishap, but his father is no ordinary man. He is a \"colored\" and revered anti-apartheid hero, and his female companion is a white activist fiercely dedicated to the cause. As Will struggles with confusion and bitterness, \u003ci\u003eMy Son's Story\u003c\/i\u003e unravels the consequences of one man's infidelity as a new South Africa violently emerges from the apartheid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Captures with convincing detail the ecstatic rewards and terrifying costs of revolutionary politics...Delineates with unblinking candor the collision of public and private experience that takes place on a daily basis in South Africa...A fiercely intelligent novel -- one of her most powerful yet.\" —Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gordimer has taken South Africa's tragedy and laid the truth of it in our laps. The story she tell sis lucid and achingly alive.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully \u003ci\u003efelt\u003c\/i\u003e, both in its anger and its compassion...It is so rich as to make praise superfluous, so vital and disturbing as to send us...back into the world with a heightened sense of what life in it might mean.\"—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A bold, unnerving tour de force . . . brilliantly suggestive and knowing.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nadine Gordimer has given us a work of bleak beauty and enormous force.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gordimer has taken South Africa's tragedy and laid the truth of it in our laps. The story she tells is lucid and achingly alive.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The moral urgency that informs Nadine Gordimer's novels and stories endows them with a virtue distinct from their literary merits. Her subject is the agony of South Africa; her theme, the corruption that leads *Bigoted rulers, but its reformers as well . . . A brave writer, she has. over the decades and at some risk to herself, combined a layered moral vision with an acute apprehension of how people react to a cruel and self-destructive society.” —\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A thoughtful, poised, quietly poignant novel that... recognizes the value and cost of political commitment.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Although all of Gordimer's novels are written from a political point of view--as an opponent of apartheid and all its work--her intelligence is too subtle, her imagination too exact, to allow her to produce a merely political novel . . . \u003ci\u003eMy Son's Story\u003c\/i\u003e maintains the finest balance of sympathies.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Independent (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The turmoil in South Africa leaves no member of a decorous colored family untouched, as the schoolmaster husband turns activist and lover. Gordimer is perceptive, unflinching, and sympathetic” —\u003ci\u003eThe Observer (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If one were never to read any other literature about South Africa, Gordimer's work should be enough. For more than thirty years she has delineated each shift and change in the system in [her] novels and short stories that intertwine the personal with the political. As a literary keeper of records, she has no peer.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully \u003ci\u003efelt\u003c\/i\u003e, both in its anger and its compassion. It is so rich as to make praise superfluous, so vital and disturbing as to send us . . . back into the world, with a heightened sense of what life in it might mean.” —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A remarkable novel--tough, unsentimental, moving in the extreme.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mail (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A bleak, powerful novel of issues . . . This book radiates strength, personality, intelligence, and commitment.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Telegraph (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMy Son's Story\u003c\/i\u003e, about a colored South African family ravaged by the father's affair with a white human rights advocate, probes with breathtaking power and precision the complexities of 'love, love\/hate,' and the interplay of public and private reality. . . . Gordimer retains perfect control over her material, rendering her characters' shifting perspectives with truly extraordinary empathy and discernment. Highly recommended.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gordimer delivers her most perceptive and powerful novel in years. The story of a man's evolution as a political activist and the toll it takes on his family and on him, it is also a picture of a marriage and of an extramarital affair, set against a backdrop of daily life in segregated South Africa, even as the winds of change begin to blow. The novel is eloquent in its understated prose and anguished understanding of moral complexities.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250003751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40631387390158,"sku":"9781250003751","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_dbeb1af7-b45d-4dda-a133-7f94500e7cee.jpg?v=1638843149","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250003751","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}