
No Cold Kitchen
A Biography of Nadine Gordimer
Ronald Suresh Roberts(Author)
STE Publishers
Will be published approx. on 30. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-919855-58-5 (ISBN)
Description
Eight years in the making, this book charts Nadine Gordimer's life and work, providing a vibrant portrait of the country in which Gordimer lives, the history she lived through, and the people around her-people in South Africa, such as Nelson Mandela, George Bizos, Es'kia Mphahlele, Bram Fischer, Nat Nakasa, Desmond Tutu and Alan Paton; and people abroad, including Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Sampson, Edward Said, Amos Oz, Harry Levin and <em>New Yorker</em> editor, Katherine White.
Drawing upon unprecedented access to Gordimer and her documents, <em>No Cold Kitchen</em> gives sympathetic but rigorous attention to the full range of Gordimer's work, teasing out the inevitable contradictions between her public and private voices and granting the reader an intimate insight into what Gordimer underwent and overcame, both during apartheid and afterwards. The author shrewdly chronicles the drive that led Gordimer, who described herself as a ""barefoot girl from Springs,"" to a Nobel Prize for literature.
Drawing upon unprecedented access to Gordimer and her documents, <em>No Cold Kitchen</em> gives sympathetic but rigorous attention to the full range of Gordimer's work, teasing out the inevitable contradictions between her public and private voices and granting the reader an intimate insight into what Gordimer underwent and overcame, both during apartheid and afterwards. The author shrewdly chronicles the drive that led Gordimer, who described herself as a ""barefoot girl from Springs,"" to a Nobel Prize for literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Yeoville
South Africa
Illustrations
Colour and black & white photographs
Weight
975 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-919855-58-5 (9781919855585)
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Person
<strong>Ronald Suresh Roberts</strong>, a graduate of Balliol College-Oxford and Harvard Law School, was born in London and raised in Trinidad. He is the author of <em>Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd</em> and the coauthor of <em>Reconciliation Through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid's Criminal Governance.</em>